Here is currently a petition:
https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-save-the-freedom-of-photography/
> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:41:05 +0200
> From: nemow...@gmail.com
> To: commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Freedom of Panorama in danger!
>
> Fæ
Fæ, 19/06/2015 18:47:
There is no "good" FoP in Europe to save
Exception 5(3)(h) does exist, or there would be no FOP anywhere.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32001L0029:EN:HTML
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Secondly, even such Freedom of Panorama as there already is in Europe --
such as section 62 CDPA in the UK -- is threatened if the European
Commission goes for "non-commercial use" as a basis for harmonisation,
on the back of an endorsement of that view by MEPs.
(On the other hand if MEPs thro
Hi Fae,
Unless you have better sources than I have, what you write isn't true.
the proposed text going
before the European Parliament is fixed (the lobbyists already lost),
Not true.
Simple deletion of the clause would be one option; but I understand
there is also a fair chance of a cross-p
Sorry to highlight this, but the PR message is misleading and could
confuse the general public. I think you mean to stay something like "3
weeks to stop the FoP in Europe bill".
There is no "good" FoP in Europe to save, and the proposed text going
before the European Parliament is fixed (the lobby
The European Parliament is set to remove "Freedom of Panorama"
See:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Three_weeks_to_save_freedom_of_panorama_in_Europe
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-06-17/Three_weeks_to_save_freedom_of_pan
