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The current report text would turn the map red or yellow for all EU countries. Note: this is not a map of the European Union, It is map of Europe and some of the countries shown here will not be affected by this legislation.
We have until Wednesday 1 July 2015 to convince MEPs to file an amendment.
We have until Thursday 9 July 2015 to convince MEPs to stop or amend the problematic text, that the European Parliament
16. Considers that the commercial use of photographs, video footage or other images of works which are permanently located in physical public places should always be subject to prior authorisation from the authors or any proxy acting for them;
There are two ways to stop this text becoming part of the adopted European Parliament report:
- Delete the whole passage and have the final version not mention FoP at all.
- Change the text to say something that would not hurt us.
Either way, we need to find 75—76 MEPs (10% of the parliament) until 1 July 2015 to sign up to an amendment proposal so it can be voted on in plenary.
This page, talkpage and associated sub-pages are a space to try to put together a campaign to do that.