There is a public summary from the European Commission of all the consultation responses it received regarding these guidelines, when they were still in draft form. In it, you will some references to some of the feedback that WMF provided: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/digital-services-act-summar...
Unfortunately, it seems there was a significant rush within the European Commission to get this out as soon as possible; just 19 days passed between the end of the consultation, and publication of the final guidelines. So although I see some changes in the final version, that go a little way towards acknowledging the concerns we raised, I would say that overall the released document is fundamentally very similar to the consultation draft.
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 11:16, Dimi Dimitrov dimi@wikimedia.be wrote:
Hi all,
@Luis: The whole thing was originally conceptualised in a whitepaper penned by Paul Keller and Felix Reda https://openfuture.pubpub.org/pub/whitepaper-article17-public-domain-repository/release/2. I would strongly assume that they will know more about potential consortiums.
@Tilman: To be fair, I didn't have much time to properly read through the finalised guidelines https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/repository/document/2024-13/C_2024_2121_1_EN_annexe_acte_autonome_cp_part1_v3_tpHHZgYyBGFMF8J5rE0OR1GdOis_103911.pdf before the report went out, so I skipped them. I have now caught up on my reading and to be honest it feels simultaneously overwhelming and underwhelming. A ton of well meant recommendations (as guidelines are non-binding), but it also says that VLOPs are free to come up with other measures to mitigate risks. The recommendations themselves come in several categories:
- *reinforcing internal processes* (e.g. having a dedicated team and
people who are aware of local contexts),
- *risk mitigation measures for electoral processes* (e.g. pointing users to official election portals, media literacy initiatives, fact-checking labels, demonetisation, recommender systems),
making an effort to ensure AIs are trained on reliable sources, red-teaming exercises),
- *mitigation measures linked to generative AI* (e.g. watermarks,
- *cooperation with national authorities, independent experts and civil society organisations*,
place an *internal incident response mechanism*),
- specific recommendations for during the election period (put in
- and for after the election period (conduct a *post-election review*).
I hope this clarifies your question at least partially!
Cheers, Dimi
Le mer. 3 avr. 2024 à 00:28, Luis Villa luis@lu.is a écrit :
I like that this 700000 euro grant has several thousand euro worth of lawyer-review-time documents attached to it 😆
Do we have any sense who might be applying to this grant?
On Mar 29, 2024 at 3:03 AM -0700, Dimi Dimitrov dimi@wikimedia.be, wrote:
===EU Repository of Public Domain and Open Licensed Works=== The European Commission is accepting proposals for a pilot project to build a repository of public domain and open licensed works. There are 700.000 euro allocated to this. One of the ideas for this is to have a database of already identified free content, so online platforms can avoid their systems blocking or deleting it (as is required by the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive).
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