Dear everybody,
I have some news
regarding WLPA that I would like to share with you! We are broadening the focus of the
contest a bit and I think that this change might make it a bit easier to get more
volunteers interested (I believe so because the change involves GLAMs - and we all loves
GLAMs, right :).
Here's the thing, recently there
have been discussions both in WMSE (about the rather unclear Swedish
FoP-law), in Europeana (with how we can get a clearer connection to
GLAMs), and most importantly the
discussion on Wikimedia Commons regarding the potential
risk of having photos of modern art being deleted.
Because of these discussions we in the international
team have come to the conclusion that also Public Domain artworks
in GLAMs and paintings should be included in the WLPA photo contest as many
(most?) of those can be considered publicly owned and publicly
accessible, i.e. being public art. This
change will increase the amount of PD artworks that are included in
the contest (i.e. that are completely safe from deletion on Wikimedia
Commons),
make it possible for countries without Freedom of Panorama to
participate and take better use of Europeana's expertise and continue to
deepen the Wikimedia movement's cooperation with GLAMs. Yesterday Europeana agreed on
this change.
It will however be up to the national teams to decide if you
would like to add museums into the mix and which ones that you
believe have suitable collections and should be included or if you
would like to focus on artworks that are outdoors. I would be happy
to assist you as much as possible and discuss this further and how to
do this the best; and I also hope that Europeana will be able to
assist us with contact details and so forth.
I hope that this change
perhaps will make it more interesting for some of you or your volunteers to
participate and encourage you to contact people that you might think would be interested
in helping out! There is still 3,5 month left and the international team is eager and
capable to help you get started! I would also like to stress that to do smaller pilots of
the contest would be super cool as well!
Kind regards,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event Manager Europeana Awareness
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