I am so glad that as soon as someone pops up with some text when asked for it, that the positive reactions are so overwhelming :) Anyway, the translation has been proofread, feel free to use etc as explained.
Lodewijk 2008/11/16 effe iets anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > > Thanks for sharing this. Wikimedia Nederland is working on a reaction which > has been draft-translated into English as well. We were invited by the Dutch > ministry of legal affairs to give our view on this green paper, to be taken > into account for the national government reaction. We have done this[1], > attended an informal meeting at the ministry with other stakeholder > organisations and were included in the national reaction as well. > > We are still working on a reply of our own as well. It will be in Dutch, > companied by an English translation. We have already invited all the other > chapters to send in the translation or a translation of the translation (in > French, Hungarian or Swedish etc) themselves. Even though the odds are small > that the EC will actually listen to us, the consequences are of such serious > nature that we should definitely do whatever we can to help this process > ahead in a positive direction. > > You can find the draft reaction and translation of that reaction on the > website of Wikimedia Nederland. The draft [2] (Dutch) has been written after > the meeting at the ministry by some great Wikimedians (Thanks Elly, Esther, > Fruggo, Jose, Marco, Wutsje and others :) ) and is now draft-translated into > English[3]. If you can wait until thursday you can use it under one little > condition: let us know what you do with it :). That is necessary for the > motivation of the volunteers who worked on it, as you might understand :) > > We also informed other stakeholder institutions such as CC NL, Stichting > Copyright en Nieuwe Media, Free Knowledge Institute and FSF-Europe. I know > from the Stichting Copyright en Nieuwe Media that they have sent in a reply, > and CC NL and FKI were considering. Unfortunately I heard nothing back from > FSFE. > > Copyright is a tough thing, and sometimes, not so often, you have a chance > to change it in a *positive* way. However, it is also an opportunity for > Walt Disney and other copyright holder organisations to try and extend. So > we all might have to step up, and do our best. I don't know how receiving > the EC is towards replies from individuals, but it might definitely be good > to have organisations sign this piece, and send it in! If your chapter is > not working on it, approach the board, and ask them whether they want to do > it, see if you can help them with this hard task. > > Bare in mind, the deadline is on November 30. > > Best regards, > > Lodewijk Gelauff > (board member WMNL) > > ps: if you would have read our chapter report two months ago, you would > have known this all already ;-) Join the chapter report-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-reports (no > discussion there, only reports coming in monthly) > > [1]: http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Groep_Groenboek/en/Consultation > [2]: http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Groep_Groenboek/Reactie > [3]: http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Groep_Groenboek/en/Reaction > > 2008/11/14 teun spaans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Agree. >> >> >> And perhaps other organizations working with copy left licenses could be >> informed? >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Teofilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > The European Commission published in July a "Green Paper - Copyright >> > in the Knowledge Economy" (1) . >> > >> > In ยง3.4. They talk about the possibility to adapt copyright law so >> > that user-created contents would become easier, and they ask to send >> > them feedback by 30 November 2008 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . >> > >> > I thought it would be kind of cool if the foundation or the individual >> > european chapters would use this opportunity to give them some hints >> > of what a Wikipedia-friendly copyright law/directive should look like, >> > or a few concrete examples of the worries we are having in present >> > time with the current laws. In particular it should be stressed how >> > laws in some country lacking a "fair use" restriction for pictures >> > and/or without a "panorama freedom" are cumbersome. Non copyright >> > issues like the ltalian law on cultural goods should also be >> > mentioned. >> > >> > I am sending the same message on the village pump on Commons : >> > >> > >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#European_Commission_Green_Paper_-_Copyright_in_the_Knowledge_Economy >> > >> > >> > (1) >> > >> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0466:FIN:EN:HTML >> > (English) >> > >> > Other languages are available here : >> > >> > >> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52008DC0466:FR:NOT >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > foundation-l mailing list >> > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
