Thanks for sharing this, Chuck! Great to see this underway.
Luis
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016, 2:08 PM Charles M. Roslof <croslof(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi policy folks,
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tl;dr: Please check out and participate in the new copyright strategy on
Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_strategy>, and attend the
accompanying IRC office hour
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours>
on September 15.
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As you may have already seen on other mailing lists or through messages
on-wiki, we on the WMF legal team have been putting together a new strategy
for identifying, prioritizing, and addressing copyright issues that affect
Wikimedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_strategy>. The goal
of the strategy is to improve how Wikimedia does its copyright-related work
by providing a centralized place for everyone—staff and non-staff alike—to
organize and collaborate on that work. There’s more information on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_strategy
The strategy is designed to work with all sorts of issues, including
things like MediaWiki feature design, Creative Commons license compliance
and project copyright policies. I’m hoping the copyright strategy pages
will also become a place to track and discuss copyright-related public
policy opportunities and developments. If a copyright lawsuit is filed,
copyright legislation is proposed, or an opportunity arises to share
Wikimedia’s perspective on copyright with policymakers, it can be added to
the strategy’s list of issues
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_strategy/Issues>. We can then
all talk about it and propose responses or activism.
The goal of the strategy is not to replace this mailing list, the public
policy portal <http://policy.wikimedia.org>, or anywhere else where
policy discussions are already thriving, but to supplement existing forums.
By documenting discussions and keeping them active on-wiki, we can help
make sure we don’t lose track of anything.
If you have questions about all of this, I encourage you to leave a
comment on the copyright strategy talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Copyright_strategy>. The legal team
will also be holding an office hour on IRC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours>to
discuss the strategy on September 15 at 14:00 UTC.
I hope you’ll participate!
Best,
Charles M. Roslof
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
croslof(a)wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885
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