Wikimania 2024

Michele Failla

Michele works as Senior EU Law & Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Europe. When a new piece of legislation is passed, he advocates to ensure that Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia movement are preserved. He strives to be sure that lawmakers as well as regulators widely understand the Wikimedia model and respect its functioning & values. In his efforts, he closely works with the Foundation's public policy team and the European national chapters.
He is passionate about EU & media law and the commons.


Session

08-08
15:30
25min
Legal measures to protect ourselves against SLAPPs
Dimi Dimitrov, Michele Failla

Wikimedia has been sued in at least four EU countries with the explicit aim to restrict unwated information. The EU has recently passed a directive introducing some protections against such obviously ill-intended cases. Member states will have two years to introduce protections into national law and we want to offer communities a chance to participate in the process.

Legal & Advocacy
Warsaw (20+24)(interpretation)