Publicpolicy July 2015

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[Advocacy Advisors] Topic scope inquiry; legal question about Harald Bischoff
by James Salsman 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

I am of the often non-unanimous opinions that the Foundation should, in complete yet indirect accordance with its mission, take at least pro forma and ideally active stances in favor of social issues such as free public education through college, universal preventative health care, income equality, gender wage equity, and greenhouse gas mitigation. Would anyone object to a discussion of these questions? Also, a more specific legal advocacy question: If Harald Bischoff has defrauded Commons reusers by requiring stricter attribution than the community requires, does the Foundation have standing in Germany to require him to return the money to his victims in proportion to the extent that their attribution was improper?

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[Advocacy Advisors] Fwd: CISPA is back... again
by James Salsman 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

Via: http://tumblr.fightforthefuture.org/post/124759594053/cispa-is-back-again-s… Pressing news: U.S. Congress is rushing toward a vote on CISA (formerly called CISPA), the worst spying bill yet.[1] CISA would give giant Internet companies like Google and Facebook total legal immunity to do almost anything they want with our data. Why? So that the government can pressure these companies to share even more of our personal information with spy agencies like the NSA.[2] Congress has tried this before. Four times! Every time we’ve managed to defeat CISA-like legislation at the last minute. This time, though, the prospects are looking grim. Defense contractors and big banks are pouring money into lobbying and using recent news like the OPM hacks to spread fear and misinformation. Worse, President Obama is signaling that he’ll sign CISA if it ends up on his desk, even though security experts say it will do nothing to prevent cyber attacks.[3] [1] http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/247921-senate-gop-whip-eyes-early-a… [2] Learn more at https://www.cispaisback.org [3] https://www.newamerica.org/oti/coalition-letter-from-55-civil-society-group…

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[Advocacy Advisors] Net Politics Beer on Friday from 20:00
by Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

Hi all, We have now confirmed the venue for the #npbmex this Friday. We'll be meeting at the Calcino Almeda pub/restaurant that is just across the Hilton next to the park (Calle Doctor Mora 9). A NetPoliticsBeerX (#nbpx) is an informal meet-up of people involved or interested in the different fields of internet politics and activism (e.g. copyright, privacy, surveillance, open data, telecoms regulation). The goal of this NetPoliticsBeerMexico (#npbmex) is to meet with local digital rights and activist groups and get to know more about the digital rights situation on a more global level. Some info about the meet-up here: https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Npbmex Cheers, Dimi

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[Advocacy Advisors] Your Public Policy Schedule for Wikimania
by Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Hi everyone! My social media timelines are overflowing with posts about packing, flying and eating tacos and cats in suitcases, which can only mean Wikimania is just around the corner. As last year, we have a pretty generous amount of public policy events set up. Here are some (but not all) of them. Conveniently ordered chronologically. - Wikimedia Conference Follow-Up Day <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMCON_Follow-Up_Day>, Wednesday, July 15, 13:00hrs, Conference venue Inform people about the movement goals we want to set, get the conversation going and people thinking so they have some time to reflect ahead of the talks. - The Twilight of EU Copyright Reform, or, How to reform with a hammer, <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Twilight_of_EU_Cop…> Friday, July 17, 15:00hrs Once again we're looking at how crowd-sourced advocacy works, but this time expect concrete examples of what Wikimedia did in Europe to try and influence the copyright reform to include text that supports free knowledge. You will see legislative texts proposed and by us and also get an explanation why certain parts didn't make it to the final version. We'll also discuss the question of how an international public policy structure should look like. - #npbmex <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/npbmex>, Friday July 17, 20:00, Gathering at the lobby of the One Almeda Hotel (Av. Juárez 88) - Informal and social meet-up of all people interested in net politics (copyright, network infrastructure, data protection, telecoms regulation, etc.). Will mingle Wikimaniacs with local net activists. - Public Policy Meetup <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_meet-up>, Saturday, July 18, 10:30, Conference venue (Chapters' village) Wikimedians interested in public policy are invited to get to know each other, discuss the issues, plans and solutions at Wikimania. - Amplify Free Knowledge with Public Policy <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Amplify_Free_Knowledge…> Sunday, July 19, 11:00hrs, Conference venue The WMF legal team will discuss the core policy issues lay out some initial next steps that to better articulate our positions and make it easier for volunteers to work locally to build better public policy for the Wikimedia movement. - Copyright reform in the EU - What you can expect to happen <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Copyright_reform_in_th…>, Sunday, July 19, 11:30hrs, Conference venue The inside scoop by Julia Reda, Member of the European Parliament and rapporteur on the copyright implementation report. What are the European Parliament and the European Commission likely to propose? - Panel Discussion on regional policy, politics and freedom of expression Sunday, July 19, 16:30hrs, Conference venue with Katitza Rodriguez (EFF), Paz Peña (Derechos Digitales from Chile), Renata Avila (Web We Want), Article 19, R3DMX More information about the discussion regarding our public policy goals and up-to-date events changes at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advocacy/Movement_Goals See you all very soon! Dimi

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[Advocacy Advisors] Thank You Notes to the MEPs who helped us save FoP
by Karl Sigfrid 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

The vote on July 9 went our way – resulting in the deletion of the proposal to limit FoP rights in Europe – thanks to a lot of hard work by Wikimedians and with the much appreciated help from a number of MEPs. Let's make sure that each of these MEPs gets a thank-you note so that they know we value their effort to reverse the JURI Committee's decision. If you live in one of the countries listed below and would like to send a few thank-you messages to MEPs in your country, send me an email. I will give you a list of MEPs who have supported us either by signing the Schaake amendment, by speaking up in the parliament, by spreading the message in the media, by voting with us or by doing all the this. Also, if you have already sent out messages of appreciation to certain MEPs, that is information that would be useful to me. Best regards, Karl Austria Belgium Czech Republic Germany Estonia Spain Finland Hungary Ireland Italy Lithuania The Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia UK (If you know of helpful MEPs from countries not listed here, please let me know.) (Sweden is not on the list since I'm taking care of that myself.) -- Karl Sigfrid +32 487 94 76 30 karl(a)wikimedia.be Rue du Trone 51 1000 Brussels

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[Advocacy Advisors] Updates on voting records
by Owen Blacker 12 Jul '15

12 Jul '15

Hey, I've updated the Irish <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015/ie> and British <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015/uk> subpages of the Commons FoP page. - I've listed all the MEPs from the two countries - I've marked how they voted on deleting the Cavada-amended §46 - I've highlighted with an icon the 23 MEPs who did not vote on deleting §46 (Ireland: 1 Ind/ECR, 1 Ind/S&D; UK: 10 UKIP/EFDD, 2 Lab/S&D, 6 Con/ECR, 1 SNP/G-EFA, 1 UUP/ECR, 1 Ind/ENF). These are all names absent from the voting record on page 205–6 of that big PDF, rather than abstentions. Some of those non-voters were presumably just not in Strasbourg for some reason; once we know why, it's worth removing the icon and adding an explanation, if the reason is anything other than objecting to FoP, I'd suggest. O x

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[Advocacy Advisors] Freedom of Panorama in Reda Report
by Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Hi all, The vote on FoP just passed. The negative text by Cavada was dropped by 502 to 40. The positive text by Schaake didn't pass by 228 to 303. The report as a whole was accepted with 445 to 65 with 32 abstentions. The question we need to discuss in Mexico is how we will tackle the Commission to propose something on FoP and what other points from the report we should focus on. Thanks everyone, we almost manage to achieve a full swing, which is a very tough feat to get done in 3 weeks. Cheers, Dimi

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[Advocacy Advisors] Owen Blacker has joined this list
by Owen Blacker 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Hey everyone, please to meet you all. I'm Owen Blacker (User:OwenBlacker <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OwenBlacker>, primarily on enwiki and commons) and I'm a director of Open Rights Group, as well as a Wikimedian and one of the guys who's been working on #saveFoP I've just published my "so what happened with #saveFoP <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23saveFoP> in EuroParl" piece, if any of you is interested: https://medium.com/@owenblacker/street-photography-in-europe-so-what-happen… I'm very much looking forward to seeing what we can do about getting FoP extended Union-wide. (And I'll desist from further shameless attempts at getting tweets, promise.) Have a good weekend everyone! Owen

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[Advocacy Advisors] Congrats to Yana!
by Geoff Brigham 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hi all, Thanks so much for your engagement on this list and your hard work on a host of issues. I probably follow this list the closest, and really respect your insights and judgment as we navigate through a number of tricky or tough issues. If I may, I have some good news to report from WMF. Yana Welinder <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:YWelinder_(WMF)> on the legal team has just been named as a 2015-2016 affiliate scholar/researcher for Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society <https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/>. (Yana is also a Fellow <http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/yana-welinder> with the Stanford Center for Internet & Society <http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/>.) As a Berkman Center Affiliate, Yana will have the opportunity to further engage with the Internet law and policy community and continue her research on issues that support Wikimedia movement values. Yana’s previous work in this space has included a research paper <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2476779> highlighting Wikimedia’s trademark policy process (co-written with her legal colleague Stephen LaPorte <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Slaporte_(WMF)>) and CollabMark <http://collabmark.org/index.html>, an open source guide to trademark policies (also co-created by Stephen). Congrats to Yana, and thanks again to all those on this list for your hard work and dedication to issues of shared interest. Geoff -- Geoff Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6750 gbrigham(a)wikimedia.org *California Registered In-House Counsel* *Notice: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or Board and staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.*

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Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Freedom of Panorama in Reda Report
by Jan Weisensee 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Thank you and everyone working on this indeed! I've seen the media coverage and press release rate on FoP skyrocketing in those past weeks. Just a month ago no one knew about the issue, now all Brussels talked about it. Great work! Sent from cell phone. Apologies for typos and brevity. Am 09.07.2015 13:26 schrieb Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov(a)gmail.com>: > > Hi all, > > The vote on FoP just passed. > > The negative text by Cavada was dropped by 502 to 40. > > The positive text by Schaake didn't pass by 228 to 303. > > The report as a whole was accepted with 445 to 65 with 32 abstentions. > > The question we need to discuss in Mexico is how we will tackle the Commission to propose something on FoP and what other points from the report we should focus on. > > Thanks everyone, we almost manage to achieve a full swing, which is a very tough feat to get done in 3 weeks. > > Cheers, > Dimi

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