[Advocacy Advisors] Commissioner on copyright reform and FoP

Thu Jul 3 11:28:37 UTC 2014

This is absolutely brilliant, Stevie! Romaine's image and the text you
added next to it. Plus the story we have to tell with the EP Secretariat
giving us permission to use it on Wikipedia only to figure out later that
they don't the rights and thus can't allow us to use an image of their own
building.

Could WMUK or another chapter print this image with the text on a banner?
180x76cm would be enought. We could use it at events around Brussels to
raise awareness in a very powerful way. I could even imagine an info-booth
inside the Parliament.

2014-07-03 12:56 GMT+02:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>:

> This is excellent! Progress may take time, but it's beginning to feel like
> we are getting somewhere.
>
> I touch on the FoP issue in the upcoming Wikimedia UK annual review
> booklet - https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/File:Wikimedia_AR_2014_v4.pdf -
> in the section about advocacy. I use Romaine's excellent image of the
> blacked out European Parliament.
>
> Let's keep pushing!
>
> Stevie
>
>
> On 3 July 2014 11:48, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Neelie Kores, outgoing Commissioner for the Digital Agenda held a speech
>> at a conference in Amsterdam yesterday where she spoke about the need of
>> the planned copyright reform. [1] Among other things, she said:
>>
>> *When you can't sing happy birthday, or post a picture of the Atomium,
>> how is that fair or reasonable, how is that something you can explain to
>> ordinary citizens?*
>>
>> Yes, it is an outgoing Commissioner and DG CONNECT is the not the lead DG
>> for copyright, but this is the first time the European Commission said
>> anything about Freedom of Panorama. I know for a fact that it was the
>> members of the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU and their constant talk to
>> anyone about this issue how the Atomium example showed up on the radars of
>> both DG CONNECT and DG MARKT. In this line of thought I just wanted to say:
>> Thank you and great job, everyone!
>>
>> Let's make sure we keep FoP on the table. We actually have the great
>> examples and stories to tell.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dimi
>>
>>
>>
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