Best of luck Douglas, if there's anything people outside of SA can do to
help please let us know. I'll share it with a few photograph Facebook
groups I\m part of, I'm sure a few people will be from SA in them.

Thanks

John

On 10 July 2017 at 11:57, Douglas Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Just in case an email I sent earlier did not go through because of a pdf
> attachment that was too large I have sent this one as well.
>
> Last week Friday Wikimedia South Africa made a written submission to the
> parliament of South Africa urging that a Freedom of Panorama clause be
> included in any new version of the South African Copyright Act.  We are
> hoping to give an oral testimony before parliament so as to explain why
> such a clause should be included into the act.
>
> You can also see the submission on commons at the link here:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ZA_s
> ubmission_to_the_Parliementory_comittee_on_Trade_and_
> Industry_-_7_July_2017.pdf
>
> Both the Wikimedia ZA board
> <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Board_Meeting_12_December_2016> as well as
> the broader editing community
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_South_Africa#Copyright_Act_amendment>
>  in
> South Africa voted unanimously to for us to advocate for Freedom of Panama
> in South Africa.  In support of this effort we also ran a banner campaign
> (see landing page here
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_ZA>) on Wikipedia
> in South Africa which collected 720 petition signatures
> <https://www.change.org/p/ahermans-parliament-gov-za-freedom-of-panorama-in-south-africa>
> .
>
> Hopefully we will be given a chance to present to Parliament in early
> August on the matter just before this year's Wikimania in Canada.
>
> Regards,
>
> Douglas.
>
> --
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