[open-government] Fwd: [foianet] Cease and desist order issued against German FOI portal Frag den Staat

Wed Jan 22 14:54:41 UTC 2014

Hello guys,
This is a very interesting case indeed. Looks like OKFN will fight this
case in terms of FOI (as I realize from the email of Zara) while BMI has
chosen the Copyright path (from the blog).

Whatever the outcome, this case will influence FOI initiatives around
Europe and needs a lot of attention and a good campaign awareness.

Blogging and retwetting. *Please* keep us updated on developments...

May Freedom Be With You :),
Armand

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>wrote:

> Very interesting case and  intruiging steps by the BMI (German Home
> Office).
>
>
> Good luck to Daniel and the others fighting this prima facie rather
> ridiculous viewpoint by BMI.
>
> best,
> Ton
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> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> FYI
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Zara Rahman <zara.rahman at okfn.org>
>> Date: 22 January 2014 11:35
>> Subject: [foianet] Cease and desist order issued against German FOI
>> portal Frag den Staat
>> To: foianet at lists.foiadvocates.info
>> Cc: Stefan Wehrmeyer <stefan.wehrmeyer at okfn.org>
>>
>>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>> Just wanted to let you know of an exciting FOI development here in
>> Germany - the German Ministry of the Interior has issued Frag den Staat<https://fragdenstaat.de/>,
>> (a German FOI portal run by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany) with a
>> cease and desist order, for publishing a document on EU party quotas which
>> they obtained under the FOI law.
>>
>> More details about this here:
>> http://blog.fragdenstaat.de/post/74158554995/cease-and-desist-by-the-german-government-for
>> in English, and here:
>> https://fragdenstaat.de/presse/2014-01-21-bmi-mahnt-fragdenstaat-ab/ in
>> German.
>>
>> If you'd like more information or to help on the campaign (we'd love to
>> raise awareness about this globally!) - please get in touch with project
>> lead, Stefan Wehrmeyer on stefan.wehrmeyer at okfn.org
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Zara
>>
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