Hi Ivan,

Thanks a lot for reaching out!

To be sure: this is an official statement. We are trying out new channels to reach policymakers and participants in the policy conversation who are interested in copyright, the public domain, and free knowledge.

We shared our thoughts in this format so that we can get the message out quickly and reach a wide audience of interested people in the Wikimedia movement and beyond.

Stephen

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Ivan Martínez <galaver@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for sharing Jan.
Any reason for don't be published as an official statement of WMF and/or as a press release?

2016-02-03 11:48 GMT-06:00 Jan Gerlach <jgerlach@wikimedia.org>:
Dear all

We, the policy team at WMF, have written down our thoughts about TPP's effect on the public domain in a post on Medium: https://medium.com/@wikimediapolicy/what-s-tpp-the-problematic-partnership-6751951872cc#.u7y5s45kc

If you agree, go ahead and recommend the post to others or retweet our message on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/wikimediapolicy/status/694812284145786880

If you don't agree with our views, please let us know and help us get an honest discussion off the ground!

Best,
Yana, Stephen, and Jan

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