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You Shall Not Pass! Wikimedia Foundation Denied Observer Status At WIPO
China blocked the Wikimedia Foundation’s bid for observer status at WIPO. This is the second time this has happened after the Foundation’s initial application in 2020. Wikimedia’s exclusion sets a worrying precedent and should alert European lawmakers who are concerned about the democratic governance of intergovernmental organizations. EDRi's member Wikimedia Germany sheds some light on the case.
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E-Evidence: trilogues kick off on safeguards vs. efficiency
The Regulation on European production and preservation orders for electronic evidence in criminal matters (E-Evidence) aims to create clear rules on how a judicial authority in one Member State can request electronic evidence from a service provider in another Member State. One such use case would be requesting user data from a platform in another EU country during an investigation. We wrote about our main issues in the past.
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Member in the Spotlight: Wikimedia Deutschland
Wikimedia Deutschland is a German non-profit organisation, with currently around 80,000 members, part of the worldwide Wikimedia movement. It believes that equal opportunities in accessing knowledge and education is a human right.
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Censoring Wikipedia in Turkey is censoring our collective knowledge
2018 will be a pivotal year for the internet.
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The EU gets another opportunity to improve copyright rules
The EU gets another opportunity to improve a copyright proposal that would have threatened the open web.
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Wikimedia: A licence for success
In this blogpost published on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of EDRi we present our member Wikimedia Germany.
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School of Rock(ing) Copyright 2017: (Re-)united to #fixcopyright!
In September and October 2017, EDRi, Communia and Wikimedia co-organised a series of copyright-related workshops: School of Rock(ing) Copyright. The goal of the workshops was to engage local activists, researchers and associations interested in copyright to create new spaces of action at the national and European Union (EU) level.
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Swedish Supreme Court rules against Freedom of Panorama
Wikimedia’s Swedish chapter was sued in 2013 by BUS (Visual Arts Copyright Society in Sweden) for the site Offentligkonst.se, a site where you can upload your own images of public art so that others can easily find them. BUS claimed that Wikimedia Sweden violated copyright law by publishing images of public artwork online. The Supreme […]
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