EU lobby

This page intends to give an overview of some of the information available about the lobby on European legislation and policies.

Legislation lobby discussion at Wikimania 2009

Meeting, July 2009, Brussels

What: A dedicated meeting for chapters about EU legislation and policy lobbying
When: mid July
Where: Brussels, exact location will follow
Who: Chapter representatives who are the relevant board member on this topic for chapters are interested and able to contribute
More information: (internal) http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_lobby_meeting/Brussels_July_2009

Some suggested areas by the participants (but no conclusions, only brain storm!):

Reproductions of 2D works --> should make sure that the law/regulations are very clear that this is not a new work
Database rights
Software patents
Copyright on Government works / publicly funded works
Shorten duration of copyright
Staten purpose for copyright and limit to that (art, sciences, creativity, innovation)
Impact on collection societies when works are freely licensed (surtax, restrictions on their members)
Orphan works (when the copyright owner cannot be identified)
Raising threshold for the required added creativity to have copyright
Panoramafreiheit
Principle of the applying the most flexible law within the EU
Exceptions to circumvent rules (disability-DRM, archives etc)
Public sector information
Commissioning studies of copyright impact

(please note that this does not include any prioritization yet)