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Current scope of freedom of panorama in the countries of Europe.
The current report text would turn the map red or yellow for all EU countries.
 
OK, including works of art
 
OK for buildings only
 
Not OK, for non-commercial use only
 
Not OK
 
Unknown

We have until Thursday 9th July to convince MEPs (Member of the European Parliament) to stop or amend the following text, that the European Parliament is considering in a report of the Commission of Juridical Subjects on the implementation of the Directive 2001/29/EC on author's rights in the society of the information:

16. Considers that the commercial use of photographs, video footage or other images of works which are permanently located in physical public places should always be subject to prior authorisation from the authors or any proxy acting for them;

There are two ways to stop this text becoming part of the adopted European Parliament report:

  1. Delete the whole passage and have the final version not mention FoP at all.
  2. Change the text to say something that would not hurt us.

Either way, we need to find 75-76 MEPs (10% of the house) until 1 July to sign up to an amendment proposal so it can be voted on in plenary.

UPDATE:

  1. We have managed to find enough MEPs from various groups to file a positive amendment affirming Freedom of Panorama. The signatures were collected with the help of mainly the Dutch, German and Estonian ALDE members.
  2. As a result of the big pressure we exercised and the fact that his own group publicly opposed him on this, Mr. Cavada has now called everyone in the European Parliament to vote to delete his wording, but also to oppose the amendment, as a compromise. It looks like there is a solid majority for this compromise.
  3. Delegations form the second largest group, the S&D, have taken public positions against the Cavada text. They have however also let us know, that they wouldn't appreciate being cornered into voting for new (ALDE) amendment. The reasons they cite are mainly of procedural nature.
  4. It would take a lot of pressure to get the positive amendment through. Such an aggressive campaign pushing for the absolute maximum this early on in the legislative process could, I am afraid, hurt our standing. Especially banners are only effective if they are used conservatively and there is an imminent threat. This threat is not given any longer, which we should all congratulate ourselves for. This is something we achieved! I want to personally thank each and every single one of the hundreds of people who worked on this.
  5. We can still push for the positive amendment by ALDE! We can do this by writing and calling our MEPs personally and ask them to vote for it. We can also do this by joining the petition, which will ask all its signatories to to do the same.
  6. What we can and should do now is invest in the contacts we established with MEPs and their assistants. Thank the ones who answered and promised to help! Invite them to a Wikipedia meet-up! Offer you expertise! Ask them to help you with FoP on the national level if you have none!
  7. Maintaining contacts is also important, as the copyright reform dossier will come to the European Parliament sometime next year. If we make friends now, it will make our lives much easier next time around.
  8. The vote on 9 July will go down as follows: First the positive amendment by ALDE will be voted on, then after that the "split" (meaning deletion) of the FoP paragraph. If the positive amendment passes, we would need the deletion to be rejected. If the positive amendment is rejected, we need the deletion to get a majority.


Today 9 July, the European Parliament voted about the copyright report, including the subject Freedom of Panorama.

  • The negative text by Cavada (Freedom of Panorama only non-commercial in whole EU) was dropped by 502 to 40.
  • The positive text by Schaake (full Freedom of Panorama in whole EU) didn't pass by 228 to 303.
  • The report as a whole was accepted with 445 to 65 with 32 abstentions.

Thanks everyone, we almost manage to achieve a full swing, which is a very tough feat to get done in 3 weeks.


This page, talkpage and associated sub-pages are a space to try to put together a campaign to do that.

Resources[edit]

Country / regional sub-pages[edit]

Project specific sub-pages[edit]

For a full list, see Freedom of Panorama 2015 on Wikidata.

Helpline[edit]

  • Regarding any questions, requests or needs please contact dimitar.dimitrov@wikimedia.bg or @dimi_z at any time!

Campaign ideas[edit]

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Discussion and proposals on /Proposed messages.

Below two designs of a banner with a first suggestion of text. Romaine (talk) 04:18, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia blackout
Wikipedia blackout

A proposal in the European Parliament brings thousands of images on Wikipedia in danger.
More information

Alternative:

Wikipedia blackout
Wikipedia blackout

A proposal in the European Parliament brings thousands of images on Wikipedia in danger.
More information

The title must be something that the readers easily understand and all would agree with. For the moment, the best I can come up with is: "Photos of modern buildings must remain on Wikipedia". The line below should explain what is going on. First suggestion: "A proposal in the European Parliament brings thousands of images on Wikipedia in danger." Please give suggestions for improvements! Romaine (talk) 04:18, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion and proposals on /Proposed messages.

Twitter campaign[edit]

I have moved the following idea to its own subsection.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How about we create copypastable tweets at /Twitter campaign, and list relevant hashes, including those for MEPs? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Great idea; I might be able to work on that some this evening. — OwenBlacker (talk) 17:04, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Email campaign[edit]

How about we draft and translate emails about this issue, so others can just copypaste them rather than invent their own? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Let's collect drafts at /Email campaign.

There is a proposal (in spanish) here, but if someboy add it to the translation tool we can translate it to other languages and make it best. Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 12:22, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
There is another letter (in catalan) here, by Davidpar. Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 22:09, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I have translated and adapted the catalan letter at /Email campaign in spanish, there is an english translation too, but it needs a review. Please, review the text to get a final document to send to the communities. Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 00:49, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Urgent! Please do not ask the users/public to send the same message, MEPs notice that and then they do not work any more. Please point users who want to write an MEP to this page for instructions: Commons:Freedom of Panorama 2015/Mail your MEP. Romaine (talk) 01:14, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I have translated that text to spanish on Commons:Freedom of Panorama 2015/Mail your MEP/es and Galician on Commons:Freedom of Panorama 2015/Mail your MEP/gl (only the part for countries with FoP like Spain). Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 08:22, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

MEP contact information[edit]

How about we try to make it easy for people to find their MEPs contact information? Also, we should create a list of important MEPs. What I mean by important - those that are in the right commissions, etc. I was reading some related forums (in Polish) and some people say that some MEPs are much more important to contact then others. Any comments on that appreciated. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Singpost piece mentioned that
for maximum impact please contact each of your local MEPs and ask them to communicate your concern to the MEP responsible for co-ordinating their group position on the matter—in the UK, for example, this would be Sajjad Karim (on-side?) for the Conservatives, or Mary Honeyball (wobbly?) for Labour
I'm not clear whether they are coordinating just UK MEPs' positions or all of ECR and S&D, though. Jheald might know…
— OwenBlacker (talk) 10:38, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Useful links:

  • [2] Official EU parliament MEP listing by country, seems to have their twitter but I don't see other contact info?
MEP contacts:
    • The parliamentary email of each MEP is in format firstname.surname@europarl.europa.eu - for example: jean-marie.cavada@europarl.europa.eu or louis.aliot@europarl.europa.eu.
    • When you click on the link [3] - choose country, choose name and on the right side of each MEP there is a list with contacts: as in the examle for Cavada - E-mail, Website, Facebook, Twitter
  • [4] This listing of EU MEPs by country seems to have their phone and email info
  • For UK residents, WriteToThem provides a postcode lookup to tell you who your MEPs are and to let you contact one or all of them gratis.
  • Letter send from Amical Wikimedia to all MEPs representing Catalan areas.

Go to m:Freedom of Panorama in Europe in 2015/Contact your MEP to easily Tweet or find the e-mail address.


Responses from MEPs[edit]

Country-specific leaflets and copypastable emails[edit]

I think we should create leaflets with stories, like the one at Commons_talk:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015/Proposed_messages#Idea. And I think we should link all materials per country at at Commons:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015/Proposed_messages#Resources_for_localized_banners_and_messages to keep it in one place. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 03:54, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

E-mails should not be copied, that does not work. It is better if everyone writes a personal mail. Advice on what you can add to a page can be found at Commons:Freedom of Panorama 2015/Mail your MEP. Romaine (talk) 19:06, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cartoons[edit]

Trilogy

Donation to Wikipedia, from Werner Huth

--Markus (talk) 18:33, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WOW. Nice. --Steinsplitter (talk) 16:48, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Participants (by country)[edit]

For resources by country, please see Commons:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015/Proposed_messages#Resources_for_localized_banners_and_messages.

Please sign up below if you want to be involved or can do anything to help; and also add anything you have done, are doing, or are about to do, so we can all inspire each other.

Not defined country[edit]

Austria[edit]

  • Liberaler Humanist I have initiated the protest action against SOPA/PIPA in the German Wikipedia. If there are no objections, i would try to organize a similar campaign again.

Belgium[edit]

Bulgaria[edit]

  • Vodnokon4e - I,ve created blogpost and translated the coordination page in Bulgarian. Prepared list with contacts of Bulgarian MEPs. Prepared text for bulgarian MEPs and their contacts, waiting for banners to involve more people.

Catalan areas[edit]

Czech Republic[edit]

Estonia[edit]

France[edit]

See also

Germany[edit]

Main Page:

See also:

Involved users on de-WP:

Greece[edit]

  • --FocalPoint (talk) 09:38, 21 June 2015 (UTC) - I informed the facebook followers of "Contributing to Greek Wikipedia" page [5][reply]
  • --Geraki TLG 11:41, 22 June 2015 (UTC) - Wrote to K. Crysogonos, Greek MEP - member of Committee of Legal Affairs, preparing another text for the rest of MEPs, will translate landing page and banner.[reply]
  • --Glavkos I wrote a message to D. Papadimoulis, Greek MEP on EU Parliament. I am willing to write e-mail letters to all Greek and Cyprous MEP's until the end of the month. We have an ongoing discussion on that in the Greek Village Pump.
Update: I got a response for MEP D.Papadimoulis that he will get informed about the issue and I send additional links to him. Today also I send hard copies (about 15) to all Greek and Cyprian MEP's on Euro-Parliament (the selection includes all the political parties that are represented there). I will start the email campaign next week, as we have time for that. A public letter is a very good idea and I will try to involve in that the el.wp community the next days. Cheers!!!--Γλαύκος shoot it 18:04, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Italy[edit]

Netherlands[edit]

Poland[edit]

  • User:Piotrus let me know Polish MEPs emails and I'll try to draft an email in Polish and share it here so others have an easier time!

Slovakia[edit]

Spain[edit]

  • Elisardojm (talk). I can traslate texts to spanish and galician. I have sent an email to the 54 MPEs of Spain. I'll try to get support from cultural entities next week and some mass media.
  • Hispalois (talk). I am relocating to Brussels next week. I can also translate between English, French and Spanish.
  • Millars I can translate and spread messages in Spanish and Catalan. WMES is working on social networks and will contact MEPs and other associations.
  • B25es (talk) 05:48, 21 June 2015 (UTC) All 54 Spanish MEPs have recieved a personal email from me, with this text. I'll think more activities.[reply]

Sweden[edit]

  • Julle (talk) Created , working on a media strategy with the Swedish chapter.

UK[edit]

Esperanto / Esperanto kaj Libera Scio[edit]

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Outside the EU[edit]

Please add your name if you can help set up websites, co-ordinate material, or can and want to participate in any other way

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