By Dimi Dimitrov, Wikimedia Brussels
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 Court ruled in favour of BUS.

By Fabian Warislohner, EDRi intern
It is time for new courses in the EU copyright reform menu: How about a neighbouring right for publishers and an EU-wide panorama exception? In December, Commissioner Oettinger presented the what could only be described as the “appetiser”: Citizens should be able to access subscribed streaming services when going on holiday in the EU (imagine, you can use what you've paid for!). Now, the Commission is asking about ancillary copyright and dishes up the panorama exception in a public consultation. The consultation is open to participation until 15 June and EDRi will be collaborating in an answering guide along with C4C to help people respond to the consultation.