Below are some basic points you can use in your text to send to a Member of the European Parliament in your country. Please modify and translate it for personal use.
Subject: Save Freedom of Panorama in Your country
Dear ...,
Explain who you are (Wikipedia volunteer)
Point to the file you are writing about (InfoSoc Implementation Report voted on 16 June in the Legal Affairs Committee and Amendment 421 by Jean-Marie Cavada)
Explain that Your country, just as 15 other EU Member States currently have full Freedom of Panorama
Say that this would have the effect of Wikipedia having to remove images from its articles
Say that this would cause tens of thousands of images to be deleted
Explain why NC/Commercial distinctions don’t work
Legal uncertainty creating a grey zone
Wikipedia is non for-profit but can be considered of commercial scale
Many educational uses nowadays are commercial, even if they are non for-profit
Appeal to them to support removing or changing the text at the plenary vote on 9 July in Strasbourg.
