Thanks for your summary.
I'm pro Europe but also a liberal so I generally prefer the least
constricted laws to become EU standard, not the most...
A more positive view on the fuzz about this issue is that it illustrated
involvement of citizens in the EU parliament which I consider a positive
thing.
If it helped the (amount of) rejection of the amendment by the parliament,
I consider that positive as well. I've seen this rejection covered in
newspapers and internet news sites, so that might lead to some positive
feelings towards the EU as well. They sure can use some.
2015-07-10 6:27 GMT+02:00 Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Our agency does not deal with copyright per se but yes, I know about the
> issues.
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> First: the petitions are a bunch of alarmist bullshit. I got one from
> change.org which urged me to sign, otherwise “taking a holiday snap in
> Europe might be illegal in a few days”. Hogwash. Nothing of this sort was
> ever contemplated. The whole discussion is about commercial use. So
> nobody’s ability to take a photo of anything and stick it on their Facebook
> page was ever questioned.
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> Second: the “Freedom of panorama” is a right that exists in some EU
> countries (e.g. the UK or Sweden) but not in others (e.g. France or Italy).
> In the countries which do not have this freedom, such as France, you have
> to get permission from the owner before using an image of a restricted
> object COMMERCIALLY. Contrary to popular belief, taking a picture of the
> Eiffel Tower at night is not illegal; using that image in an advertisement
> is unless you get permission from the authority that manages the image
> rights for the city of Paris. This has nothing to do with fascism, a word
> that should not be used lightly.
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> Third: what happened in the past few weeks is that the European Parliament
> has been debating copyright. Why? Because it is widely expected that the
> European Commission will propose a revision of EU copyright law during the
> fall, and the Parliament wanted to give the Commission some recommendations
> (which it did not ask for and which it can ignore since the Commission has
> the exclusive right to propose legislation, which is then decided upon by
> the Parliament and the Council).
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> Fourth: during that debate, a French MEP, Mr. Cavada, proposed an
> amendment that would harmonise the “freedom of panorama” across the EU.
> Being French, he wanted the law everywhere to be like it is in France, i.e.
> restrict commercial use in some cases.
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> Fifth: yesterday, the Parliament voted down the proposed amendment, so
> that its official position is that each Member State should have the
> freedom to deal with “freedom of panorama” as it wishes, i.e. the status
> quo remains.
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> Sixth: the whole thing was a storm in a teacup because of what I explained
> under the third point.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 10 Jul 2015, at 01:18, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Hey, Nathan, this sounds from out here like an issue your agency would
> be involved in in some way? At least you should have an informed opinion,
> as both a photographer of public spaces and an IP expert.
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> > Any insights for us that go beyond the hand wringing and hair tearing
> going on on the web and in the press?
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> > Should we all be signing the e-petitions?
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> > Is there really such a strong streak of fascism running loose in Europe?
> And no, I don't use the term lightly.
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> > Moose D'Curious Opinion
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