[OpenGLAM] EU Copyright Consultation - act now!

Fri Jan 10 11:13:07 UTC 2014

Dear all, 

first of all thanks to joris for highlighting this. Joris is right to point out that preparing individual answers will be quite time consuming but i would really encourage those of you who represent organisations (or who can influence those responsible in organisations) to try and provide proper answers from the perspective of your institutions. The simplified version at copywrongs.eu is really aimed at the general public and will not help much with expressing the concerns of the cultural heritage sector.

We are currently working with lots of other groups on a similar tool (actually also based on the fantastic work done by the OKFN_DE folks) that will allow more sector specific input. this will still be aimed at people working in various sectors. we are also preparing a more extensive document that contains suggested answers specifically for cultural heritage institutions. we expect to have that ready by mid next week and that should be much more useful for preparing detailed responses from the perspective of the Cultural Heritage Sector. once we have that document ready i will share it on this list. 

all the best, Paul 

On 10 Jan 2014, at 11:46, Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at europeana.eu> wrote:

> Dear all, 
> 
> You have probably seen already a  messages on the EU copyright consultation passing the OpenGLAM mailing list and Twitter account. 
> The reason for this is that it is really important to let let your voices be heard in Europe. The commission must know what kind of issues memory institutions run into because of copyright regulation. For more info about its importance please read Paul Keller's recent blog: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/pro-blog/-/blogs/new-copyright-rules-for-europe-what-do-memory-institutions-want
> 
> It is however, quite a boring and time consuming document to go through. That is why I am really happy that our friends from Open Knowledge Foundation Germany have created two ways to make it easier for you. 
> 
> You can find a simplified and filtered version on http://copywrongs.eu/. You select what kind of issues you came across into and add comments. This will take you max. 10 min. 
> If you want to take some more time and go into the full 80 question consultation there is http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/. Just fill in the fields and they will transfer that to the official consultation document. 
> 
> Note that this consultation is not limited to memory institutions, anyone who deals with copyright (which is all of you) can fill in this document, so please make your voices be heard!
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Joris
> 
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> Joris Pekel
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