EU policy/WMBE/FoP
 Home
|
 About
|
 Statement
|
 Monitoring
|
 Documentation
|
 Handouts
|
 Team
|
 Transparency
|
Wikimedia Belgium Advocacy
Promoting for free knowledge
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
[edit]Documents
[edit]- Legislative proposal in the Federal Parliament
- 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)
- Announcement by Open Vld on their legislative proposal (August 2015)
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- FaQ