[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission Copyright Consultation

[Michael Maggs]

Indeed, but responses from unregistered entities will be published separately from the rest, and given what I know of EU politics will be treated less seriously as there is a lot of concern in Brussels about transparency in lobbying.   The commission say that they ‘expect’ registration, which is not the same as requiring it, of course, but makes their thinking pretty clear.  In my view it would look very odd indeed if an entity like the WMF were not to be registered.

Michael


On 28 Jan 2014, at 19:24, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> HI,
> 
> about the Transparency Register - you can indeed submit answers without being registered. Of course, having a registration is advisable in the long run if one plans to do more things with the EU, but it is not (yet) compulsory. 
> 
> Dimi
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> 2014-01-28 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>
> [Dropping wikimedia-l and wikimedia-uk, since we're down in the weeds a bit now.]
> 
> My understanding is that it is optional, but yes, I believe we're considering it.
> 
> Luis
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> 
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Michael Maggs <Michael at maggs.name> wrote:
> Hi Luis
> 
> Just a reminder. You do know, I expect, that before filing a submission you are expected by the Commission to register the Foundation with the EU Transparency Register?  You are not registered yet.
> 
> http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/info/homePage.do?locale=en
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Michael
> 
> ____________
> Michael Maggs
> Chair, Wikimedia UK 
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> 
> On 28 Jan 2014, at 08:00, Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
>> I've spent a good chunk of the day reading through the first 31 questions; the comments on meta about those questions, and the responses proposed by Dimi and others at http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/en/full/?guide=wikimedia 
>> 
>> All the comments essentially agree, with only some small variations. Since we don't have any serious splits of opinion, I think the idea of a combined answer that represents this as the opinion of the Foundation makes sense. (Not clear to what extent we should also represent this as the opinion of Wikimedians - opinions welcome on that.)
>> 
>> With that goal in mind, I've drafted proposed answers to each question, which incorporate comments from (among others) Seb35, Deryck C., Sapfan, NaBUru38, Aktron, and Kaldari. 
>> 
>> I think the best place to discuss individual answers is in the talk pages, so I'll start uploading those shortly. I've also more-or-less copied this email into https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:European_Commission_copyright_consultation#Goals_and_next_steps if people prefer to discuss there.
>> 
>> Luis
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