Well bummer. I hope that you can figure out a good lobbying next step. Cheers,
Alex On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:41 AM, John Andersson <john.anders...@wikimedia.se > wrote: > Today we received some bad news in Sweden. The Swedish Patent and Market > Court ruled against Wikimedia Sverige in a lawsuit filed by Visual > Copyright Society in Sweden <http://bus.se/en> (BUS). The case concerns > images of public art online, more specifically in the case of our website > Offentligkonst.se <http://offentligkonst.se/>, a service created by > Wikimedia Sverige using images from Wikimedia Commons. > > The ruling means that Freedom of Panorama is eroded and the public space > is diminished. It is a detrimental loss for our projects. Next we will > talk to our lawyers and WMF legal team to see what our remaining legal > options are. Our lawyers however believe that success is not very likely if > we would decide to move forward. > > Intensive efforts to advocate for our elected officials to change the > outdated and problematic clauses in Swedish copyright law will be initiated > during the year. > > We have also started a crowdfunding campaign to cover some of the cost of > the legal expenses and fines of about 750,000 SEK stated in the verdict > (around 89,000 USD) and for future national and international lobbying > efforts. Please consider making a donation at > http://wikimedia.se/en/donera, <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>ev > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>en <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera> i > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>f <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>it > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera> i <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>s > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>a <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>sy > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>mb <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>ol > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>ic <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera> s > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>um <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>. Simply > add “BUS” in the comment, and all the money will be used for these costs. > > Some useful links (in Swedish): > > - > > The legal argumentation from the court: > > <http://www.hogstadomstolen.se/Domstolar/hogstadomstolen/Avgoranden/2016/2016-04-04%20%C3%96%20849-15%20Beslut.pdf> > http://www.bildupphovsratt.se/sites/default/files/upload/sto > ckholms_tr_pmt_8448-14_dom_2017-07-06.pdf > > <http://www.bildupphovsratt.se/sites/default/files/upload/stockholms_tr_pmt_8448-14_dom_2017-07-06.pdf> > > <http://www.hogstadomstolen.se/Domstolar/hogstadomstolen/Avgoranden/2016/2016-04-04%20%C3%96%20849-15%20Beslut.pdf> > - > > Our press release: > > <http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/hoegsta-domstolen-vaeljer-att-krympa-det-offentliga-rummet-istaellet-foer-att-gaa-paa-wikimedia-sveriges-linje-1360834> > https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/wikimedia-sverige/pressrelease > s/domslut-krymper-det-offentliga-rummet-i-sverige-2054679 > > <https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/wikimedia-sverige/pressreleases/domslut-krymper-det-offentliga-rummet-i-sverige-2054679> > > <http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/hoegsta-domstolen-vaeljer-att-krympa-det-offentliga-rummet-istaellet-foer-att-gaa-paa-wikimedia-sveriges-linje-1360834> > - > > A timeline of what has happened: https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/ > Offentligkonst.se/Stämning > > > Best, > > John > > - - - - > > John Andersson > > Executive Director > Wikimedia Sverige > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 <073-396%2051%2089> > > Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se > > Skype: johnandersson86 > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > publicpol...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: http://glamwiki.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
