European Parliament votes against EU copyright proposal that would threaten the open web – Wikimedia Blog

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Summary:

"On 5 July, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) rejected a flawed proposal for an EU Copyright Directive that would have had detrimental effects to internet freedom, access to knowledge, and collaboration online. The Wikimedia Foundation applauds the results of this vote and the opportunity it offers for a wider discussion to create a balanced, modern copyright system for Europe. The vote today means that the text of the draft Directive will be open again for amendments to be proposed and voted on by Parliament, likely at the next plenary session on September 13, 2018. In the past week, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, more than ten Wikipedia language communities, and many Wikimedia chapters in Europe took a stand against the draft Directive before the July 5th vote. Some Wikimedians even took to the streets to protest. Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, English, Estonian, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, and Spanish Wikipedia’s ran messages asking European users to contact their MEPs or went dark for a day to protest the proposal...."

Link:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/05/european-parliament-votes-against-copyright-proposal/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.europe oa.policies oa.copyright oa.legislation oa.wikipedia oa.strategies oa.advocacy

Date tagged:

07/07/2018, 18:04

Date published:

07/07/2018, 14:04