<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br><br></div>Everyone I know in Brussels including us have asked for a extension. And while the answer was constantly "this cannot be done", which was emphasised even by Commissioner Barnier a few weeks back, the sudden change of tune needs to be analysed as well. <br>
<div><br>The extension is at the same time very good news and a tiny bit worrisome. <br><br>Rumour here has it that the services (i.e. the expert bureaucrats) are in a hurry to complete a proposal, while the cabinet (i.e. the political division) isn't. The thing is that if they don't complete this within their term (keeping EP elections in May and new Commission before the end of the year), no one can knows what the new cabinet will do. They could even decide to not go ahead with a proposal at all and kill the process. All of this is fortune-telling for now, but important to keep in mind. Part of the requests for an extension came from organisations that are outright hostile toward a meaningful copyright reform exactly because they hope to halt the entire thing.<br>
<br>Dimi <br><br>Dimi<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-02-01 Luis Villa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lvilla@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">lvilla@wikimedia.org</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I sympathize with the many, many hours spent; the "terrific" from me was mostly that I anticipated one more very long night (personally) and not much time for the community to review/discuss/refine, which we'll now have more of a chance to do.<br>
<br>Have a good (better? :) weekend-<br>Luis<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Michael Maggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Michael@maggs.name" target="_blank">Michael@maggs.name</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thanks for the update. Not sure how “terrific" I find that news, personally, given that I have spent around 20 hours over the last two days working to meet the original deadline!<div>
<br></div><div><div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>____________</div><div>Michael Maggs</div><div>Chair, Wikimedia UK </div><div><br></div></div><div>
<div><div>On 31 Jan 2014, at 23:10, Luis Villa <<a href="mailto:lvilla@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">lvilla@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>That's terrific to hear!<br>
<br></div>As an update on my end, I've done up to question 71, so this gives us a little more time to review and flesh those out.<br><br></div>[For what it is worth, Michael, looking at the page here shows:<br>
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From <strong>05.12.2013</strong>
to <strong>05.03.2014 <span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">(deadline extended)</span></strong>.
<br><br>]<br><div><br>Luis<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><br></div></div><div class="im">_______________________________________________<br>
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