{"id":4469,"date":"2021-10-08T12:17:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2021-10-11T10:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T10:21:29","slug":"letter-supporting-wikimedia-foundations-application-for-observer-status-at-wipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/letter-supporting-wikimedia-foundations-application-for-observer-status-at-wipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter supporting Wikimedia Foundation\u2019s application for observer status at WIPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.org\">Wikimedia Foundation<\/a> operates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a>, one of the most popular sources of information for people around the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/profile\/amanda-keton\/\">Amanda Keton<\/a>, General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation, <a href=\"https:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/news\/2021\/10\/05\/china-again-blocks-wikimedia-foundations-accreditation-to-world-intellectual-property-organization\/\">pointed out<\/a> that \u201cthe Foundation\u2019s exclusion sets a worrying precedent for other organizations \u2013 nonprofits and for-profits \u2013 that are committed to promoting access to information, culture, and education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/2021\/10\/06\/creative-commons-response-to-wikimedia-foundations-wipo-observer-application-being-blocked\/\">Creative Commons<\/a> pointed out, that WIPO plays a pivotal role in shaping international rules that influence the sharing of free knowledge, and that this decision deprives the Wikimedia Foundation\u2019s vast global communities of the opportunity to participate in this process. Creative Commons, furthermore, reaffirmd its support for Wikimedia Foundation\u2019s application and called on WIPO members, including the People\u2019s Republic of China, to reconsider this decision. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communia-association.org\">Communia<\/a> was also one of the organisations to support Wikimedia Foundation&#8217;s application, and is also reporting on this issue on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communia-association.org\/2021\/10\/08\/civil-society-organisations-urge-wipo-member-states-to-admit-wikimedia-as-an-observer\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in their letter, the signatories have pointed out that the Wikimedia Foundation is an active and respected stakeholder in the areas of access to knowledge and information, as well as copyright policy, and that its projects have a global outreach. The Foundation and its network have contributed to national and regional legislative processes that are aimed at shaping the legal framework for user rights.<\/p>\n<p>Given the key role of WIPO in shaping normative and practical work around copyright that impacts how researchers, educators and the public at large access and use knowledge, not admitting the Foundation as an observer would be unacceptable and it would run counter with the established practice on criteria for admission of observers at WIPO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia, one of the most popular sources of information for people around the world. Amanda Keton, General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation, pointed out that \u201cthe Foundation\u2019s exclusion sets a worrying precedent for other organizations \u2013 nonprofits and for-profits \u2013 that are committed to promoting access to information, culture, and education.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4479,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}