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. > > -- > Douglas Ian Scott > 司道格 > Skype: douglas0scott > South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 <+27%2079%20515%208727> > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > >
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