Are WMF and the European affiliates allowed to lobby regarding this issue? If so, what are they doing?
Thanks, Pine On Jun 21, 2015 6:03 AM, "Romaine Wiki" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This concerns all the editors and readers in the European Union and those > in other European countries as well (copying is possible). > > *Subject* > Copyrights reform in Europe going in the wrong direction, damaging > Wikipedia. > > *What is going on?* > In the European Parliament currently a proposal (amendment) is submitted > that will restrict Freedom of Panorama in Europe. > This means: you will be no longer allowed to upload images from modern > buildings and works of public art on Commons and not allowed to use those > images on Wikipedia. > > Also if Freedom of Panorama is only allowed for Non Commercial purposes > only, this is a problem for Wikipedia! > > *Some details*? > It concerns the amendment AM421 proposed by Cavada and passed in the JURI > committee. > > *When is the voting about the amendment?* > Thursday 9th July > > But we have one chance only! > > > *What can we do about this?* > > - Forward this e-mail to anyone who should know about this. > - Talk to the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in your country. > Especially the members of the EPP, S&D and ALDE groups. -> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_European_Parliament,_2014%E2%80%9319 > - Communicate this issue to users in your local community. > - Publicise a press release about this, write about it on your > website/blog, talk to the media how this can damage Wikipedia, etc. > - Use social media: Twitter, Facebook, and so on... > - Twitter about it and retweet them. Suggestions: > https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_BE/status/611000943908384768 - > https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_BE/status/610984311853064193 - > https://twitter.com/dimi_z/status/610792189631811584 > - Twitter also directly to the Members of the European Parliament > directly and ask them if they want to turn Wikipedia into black. > > > Also there will be a CentralNotice banner to inform our readers. The > CentralNotice banner will lead to a landing page, which is at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_in_Europe_in_2015 > > More information will be on: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_in_Europe_in_2015/Learn_more > > A FAQ will be on: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_in_Europe_in_2015/FAQ > (or combined with the Learn more page) > > > *How can I help with the campaign?* > Go to: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015/Proposed_messages > and help with getting the texts of the banner, landing page and Learn more > page ready. > > 1. Banner: > * What should the text be of the title? > * What should the text be of the underline? > 2. Landing page: > * What information should be on the landing page? > * What Twitter/Facebook/Google+ links do we place? > 3. Learn more page: > * What information should be mentioned on the *Learn more* page? > * What actions would we recommend readers to take? > * Anything else? > > If the banner, landing page and Learn more page are ready, they can be > translated on Tuesday 23 June to the various European languages. Also local > Wikipedia pages can be created for it. > > > *Where is the coordination?* > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015 > To have an overview it would be handy if you sign up for your country/area. > > Collect here also your actions like press releases, tweets, Facebook posts, > etc. Those can be useful to read and to see where some action is missing or > needed. > > > *You need more information?* > Read the Signpost article: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-06-17/Three_weeks_to_save_freedom_of_panorama_in_Europe > > > *Other suggestions?* > Let us know! Add suggestions at: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015 > > Thanks! > > Romaine > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
