On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Luis,

About the mid-term reports on all four work groups, I can tell you more on Friday, as they're beeing presented tomorrow.

About the withdrawals from the text and data mining work group, there is a short Communia article on it [1] and the letter sent to the European Commission is also published [2].

That was my main interest (though I am also curious about the rest); thank you for sending the links.

Speaking for myself and not necessarily for WMF, I think that the Wikimedia movement has an important role to play in copyright reform, since we are the biggest and most high-profile example of how a broader information commons can benefit everyone. I'm just not sure how we get there yet :) So I'm very curious about what other similar groups are doing.

Furthermore, I am in touch with somebody from Open Forum Europe [3], who has been participating in this work group. If you have any questions I'd be happy to ask for you or even just make the connection.

I would be happy to be introduced! That said, I of course can't promise much - we need more consensus here before taking any actions.

Thanks-
Luis

Dimi

[1] http://www.communia-association.org/2013/05/25/research-sector-smes-civil-society-groups-and-open-access-publishers-withdraw-from-licences-for-europe-dialogue-on-text-and-data-mining/
[2] http://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default/files/Letter_of_withdrawalL4E_TDM_May%2024_1.pdf
[3] http://www.openforumeurope.org/

2013/7/2 Luis Villa <lvilla@wikimedia.org>

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Dimitar Dimitrov <dimitar.dimitrov@wikimedia.de> wrote:

The midterm report for the four work groups will be presented July 4th. Meanwhile several major non-for-profits, like Communia and the Open Knowledge Foundation, have withdrawn from the work group on text and data mining, complaining mainly about the narrow scope of discussions.

Hi, Dimitar-
I'd be curious to hear more about this. Any pointers or links? Thanks!

Luis

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