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Lightning talk on freedom of panorama in the Philippines: transcript

Juan Bautista H. Alegre of the Pilipinas Panorama Community gives a short overview of freedom of panorama at Wikimania 2023. He compares countries with full or partial freedom of panorama and says bills to introduce it are pending in both chambers of the Philippine Congress. He also touches on exemption doctrine policies for non-free content.

Key points

Freedom of panorama is often confused with public domain, which is the status after copyright expires.
Germany is described as the birthplace of freedom of panorama, which has existed there since the 1870s.
Japan, Taiwan and the United States have partial freedom of panorama, as do Denmark, Finland and Norway; many other European countries have full freedom.
Bills to institute freedom of panorama are pending in both the Philippine Senate and House, and the community tracks them on its meta page.
Exemption doctrine policies are required for Wikimedia projects hosting non-free content, and some projects with no local files may not need one.
Freedom of panorama is the legal right in some countries to publish pictures of artworks and buildings in public spaces even if they are still under copyright.

Chapters

0:00Host changeover and introduction of the speaker
1:07What freedom of panorama is and where it exists
3:29Pending Philippine bills on freedom of panorama
4:20Fair use and exemption doctrine policies
5:47Closing definition of freedom of panorama

Full transcript

0:00Out here in the center, and now I'll hand it over to the next speakers who are already at the podium, already tell you, ready to tell you their story. No audio. Test the screen. You need to mirror the screen. I'm sorry? We're changing, so Joyce will take over as a host. From now. Yeah, but I can announce that.

0:33Sure, no problem. Thank you. Hi, everyone. Just a quick announcement. If you are here to present for the lightning talk, we request you come to this side so that we can just get you set up in time and we'll now hand over to the next host, Joyce, who's going to go up on stage and introduce the next line of speakers. Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. I'm Joyce. I'm from Taiwan, from this region. My username is JoyceWikiWiki, so simple to remember.

1:07I'm your next host for the session of the technology advocacy and ECF region for the lightning talk. No more talking from me. Let's welcome our next speaker over there. Give an applause. Hello. I'm supposed to speak to you about freedom of panorama. So, I guess I should start with defining what it is. Freedom of panorama is considered something of a confusing item.

1:58there is a confusion between public spaces and public domain we're in public domain which is the status after the expiration of copyright signifies that a work can be freely reused Germany is considered as the birthplace of freedom of panorama having existed there since the 1870s. It is interesting to note the partial freedom of panorama in Japan, Taiwan, and even the United States, wherein their respective copyright laws only impose non-commercial restrictions for images of public art.

2:52Similarly, in Europe, Denmark, Finland, and Norway, we have partial freedom of panorama. Whereas in Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Germany, of course, Hungary, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and Great Britain and Northern Ireland all have freedom of panorama.

3:29In my country, the Philippines, our National Congress is in the midst of pending legislative bills in both its lower and upper chambers, respectively, to institute freedom of panorama. My thematic Wikimedia organization, Filipinos Panorama Community, is actively monitoring developments and updating our meta page to contain all the legislative information as they develop as their outcome shall affect what images we need to share in wikipedia projects you may find out more about the information that we share in meta we have bills in the philippine senate and the Philippine Congress.

4:20We have, actually, more than one bill spending in both houses. I would also like to point out that further research can be done about fair use, which can be found in Meta. we have an exemption doctrine policy which is required by wikimedia licensing policies for any wikimedia project that hosts non-free content some EDPs are listed at the wikipedia item wikidata item Wikipedia non-free content criteria, which has a number of 043-91089.

5:08Note that regardless of policy, some Wikimedia projects have zero local media files, and therefore, since there is no non-free content, if the situation is permanent, the policy may actually be superseded. We're almost done. Thank you. Thank you, Johnny. This is such an important topic within the ECF region. I'm actually very happy that Taiwan is part of the presentation.

5:47So, we can scroll up a bit. I still have a minute, I believe. Freedom of panorama is the legal right in some countries to publish pictures of artworks, sculptures, paintings, buildings, or monuments that are in public spaces, even if they are still under copyright. Thank you very much. Thank you Johnny.

Source and licence

Recording: File:Wikimania 2023 - Plenary - 18 August - Lightning Talk - A Survey of Freedom Of Panorama (FOP) in the Philippines.webm by Wikimania 2023 (2023-08-18), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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