[Advocacy Advisors] Draft letter to UK MEPs on copyright

[Michael Peel]

I'm surprised to see this isn't on the WMUK wiki/list - maybe ask the WMUK community what they think before sending it? 

Thanks,
Mike

On 14 Mar 2014, at 09:28, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

> Thank you everyone for your thoughtful comments. These will be taken into consideration for the final version of the letter which is likely to be printed and posted today.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Stevie
> 
> 
> On 14 March 2014 09:11, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at wikimedia.de> wrote:
> 2014-03-14 9:54 GMT+01:00 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
> <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com>:
> 
> 
> > As to Mathias' comment on the MEPs: Yes, there will be some considerable
> > turnover, but at the same time politicians are most likely to pay attention
> > to such a thing before election time. Sending it out just to the ones we
> > believe might get reelected would be - diplomatically speaking - bad
> > diplomacy. Can't we just resend it after the elections to just the newly
> > elected MEPs?
> 
> There is already too much bad diplomacy out there, so thanks for Dimis
> argument. As you can see from
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2014_(United_Kingdom)#Current_MEPs_by_European_Political_Group,
> the number of parties who did send MEPs to Brussels was considerable.
> It would be possible to send such a letter to the parties before the
> election and to the specific elected MEPs afterwards.
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