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Wikimedia Belgium Advocacy

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This is the Freedom of Panorama campaign page of the Wikimedia Belgium working group on public policy. After the #saveFoP campaign targeted at the European Parliament in 2015, three of the parties (VLD, N-VA, CD&V) forming the Belgian Federal Government took up the issue to introduce this copyright exception in Belgium.

Background

Documents

Legislative proposal in the Federal Parliament
- Text of the proposal
Question by MEP Frédérique Ries (MR) to the European Commission on enshrining freedom of panorama (July 2015)
Question by MEP Marc Tarabella (PS) to the European Commission on harmonisation of freedom of panorama and commercial use. (July 2015)
- Doc on his website
Announcement by Open Vld on their legislative proposal (August 2015)
- In the media (nl) / In the media (fr)
Written question by Jean-Jacques De Gucht (Open Vld) to Minister Kris Peeters (CD&V) regarding freedom of panorama (July 2015)
- paraphrased: "Any change (e.g. for FoP) would be submitted to the Council of Intellectual Property, but the status quo seems fine and there's no current reason to change it."

Timeline

26.11.2015 Proposal made to the Federal Parliament
01.12.2015 Distribution of proposal to members
13.01.2016 Peter Dedecker (N-VA) added as author

Decision-makers

Authors of legislative proposal:
- Frank Wilrycx (Open Vld)
- Griet Smaers (CD&V)
- Patricia Ceysens (Open Vld)
- Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open Vld)
- Leen Dierick (CD&V)
- Peter Dedecker (N-VA)
Rapporteur: Benoît Friart (MR)
Responsible Committee composition
- President and Vice-Presidents
Kris Peeters, Minister for Economy
Alexander de Croo, Minister for the Digital Agenda
Federal Council on IP

Information material

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