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;"It's a great way to engage a wider audience": John Cummings and the Natural History Museum and Science Museum
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[[File:EU_policy_group.svg|thumb|right|200px|The Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU logo]]  
[[File:Natural History Museum and Science Museum - The GLAM-Wiki Revolution.webm|thumb|300px|right|[[commons:File:Natural History Museum and Science Museum - The GLAM-Wiki Revolution.webm|Natural History Museum and Science Museum video]] (also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIvXGdN-95k on YouTube])]]  


The [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU (FKAGEU)], of which Wikimedia UK is a member, has this week published a [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Position_Paper_on_EU_Copyright paper on copyright reform] across the European Union.  
John Cummings is not one to shy away from large-scale projects. Fresh from helping build one of the largest Wikipedia endeavours ever - converting the Welsh town of Monmouth into the world’s first "Wikipedia town" - John moved on to become the Wikimedian in Residence at the [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ Natural History Museum and Science Museum] (NHM).


The position paper is in response to the [http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2013/copyright-rules/docs/contributions/consultation-report_en.pdf Report on the responses to the Public Consultation on the Review of the EU Copyright Rules] and the [http://infojustice.org/archives/32882 draft white paper on a copyright policy for creativity and innovation in the European Union].
His upbringing has played a key role in developing his interests, shooing him onto a path towards the role. "I've always had an interest in natural history," he says. "I didn't study science at university, but my mum’s a garden designer, I grew up in the countryside… This is one of those roles that probably doesn't happen that often."


The position paper has already been shared with key members of the European Commission. The main recommendations from the paper are that:
He held the role at the museums in South Kensington between 2013 and 2014, and helped to promote a culture of openness there as well as exploring what the institutions could do with Wikipedia.


*The Commission should clarify the European copyright framework by '''harmonising legislation''' and creating a single EU Copyright Title
One major aspect of this was looking into content donations, and how they could be beneficial for the museums in promoting their content.
*The Commission should ensure everyone has the liberty to freely use and share images taken in public spaces by introducing '''Freedom of Panorama''' universally (currently optional under Directive 2001/29/EC Article 5 Point 3.H)
*The Commission should ensure that all '''works created by officials''' within the EU administration and institutions are open for use and re-use by everyone. Such works should hence not be subject to copyright protection.
*The Commission should re-balance the current culturally and economically harmful mismatch between public commons and private property and close the “[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2290181 20th century gap]” by '''shortening copyright terms''' to the minimum term possible under existing international treaties and conventions.


The FKAGEU is a grouping of European Wikimedia chapters and other open knowledge organisations from throughout the EU. The work has largely been co-ordinated by Dimitar Dimitrov, the movement's Wikimedian in Brussels.  
"One of the main ways I encouraged content release under an open licence was just to tell people how Wikimedia projects are made and how many people see the information. It’s amazing - it's such a wide audience and not just in Britain.


This landmark paper has been signed by 33 parties from 17 European countries, of which 16 are Wikimedia chapters, thematic organisations or user groups. You can [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Position_Paper_on_EU_Copyright see a full list of signing partners here].
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