This is really great and looking forward to some positive outcome. Best of luck!
Cheers, Felix Nartey On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 12:12 PM, john cummings <[email protected]> wrote: > 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_Industr >> y_-_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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > -- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 | +447440959477* *Skype:Flixtey*
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