Talk:Freedom of Panorama

Wishlist

Wikimedians' wishlist – countries where liberal FoP should be introduced. Anyone can add a country name here. Remove country name from wishlist if FoP is successfully introduced in the said country.

• Philippines
• Indonesia
• Vietnam (restoration of FoP)
• South Korea
• Taiwan (extend to sculptural monuments)
• UAE
• South Africa
• Ghana
• Nigeria (restoration of FoP)
• Ukraine
• Romania
• Bulgaria
• Georgia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Iceland (at least architecture)

Wishlist - for countries with very old copyright laws

• State of Palestine: retention of FoP – from Section 2(1)(iii) of the 1911 Copyright Act – should the Palestinian legislature decides to make a new copyright law; see also c:COM:FOP State of Palestine

Wiki Loves Monuments mentioning on this page

Re: "Incomplete Wiki Loves Monuments documentation of a country's built heritage". Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo competition: having the lists of recognized monuments of participating countries on a wiki is useful for the competitions scope, but it has never been a goal of Wiki Loves Monuments to have a complete documentation of all built heritage around the world. Ciell (talk) 08:33, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@Ciell I intended this page to be a pro-Wikimedia page. It is never meant to be made encyclopedic. IMO, removing the mention of WLM weakens the purpose of this page to inspire Wikimedia chapters and user groups around the world to advocate for introduction/implementation of FoP in their no-FoP countries. Anyway, it has backing source (which is an article of WLM website itself about FoP restrictions and the impact on WLM coverage). JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:23, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@JWilz12345 Ah: so you don't mean the actual documentation by WLM, but the coverage of built heritage through the WLM lens. Sorry I misunderstood you there - I (WLM-i member) landed on this page because of the current FoP discussion in the Commons VP.

The blog post you are referring to is over 8 years old and WLM back then was in it's 7th edition; the situation in both Bulgaria and Greece has not changed, but we have several national organizing teams around the world that work with similar constraints. Besides the obvious countries Italy, Greece and Egypt (different but somewhat similar antiques laws), in our 2022 WLM DEI research the organizers of WLM in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Philippines, and Argentina all flagged the limited FoP in their countries being a barrier in their organization of Wiki Loves Monuments in their country. We invited all organizers but did in the end not speak to all countries: I am fairly sure there are even more countries out there where either their limited FoP or the absence of FoP is a limitation. Ciell (talk) 16:41, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@Ciell the blog post may be still relevant for both Bulgaria and Greece. Nevertheless, thanks for the more recent report, which I may add to the page. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 23:40, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

I changed the term "incomplete" to "inadequate", which I think is the term that is more correct in context. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:10, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Partial fulfillment of a past discussion

@Donald Trung: at the very least, a spirit within this past discussion is being fulfilled through this meta page on Freedom of Panorama, which I hope will serve as one of the bases for the advocacies and initiatives of all Wikimedia chapters and user groups in lobbying for Freedom of Panorama in their respective countries. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:21, 1 June 2024 (UTC)