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> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:49:57 +0000
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> 1. Re: Good news from Sweden on PD-Gov and open access
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> 2. Re: Twitter v. Holder amicus brief (James Alexander)
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> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:28:35 -0800
> From: Yana Welinder <yana@wikimedia.org>
> To: Advocacy Advisory Group for Wikimedia
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> Subject: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Good news from Sweden on PD-Gov and
> open access
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> This is great news! I haven't had a chance to dig into the proposal, but
> this sounds promising: "All scientific publications shall have a Creative
> Commons (CC) license."
> https://publikationer.vr.se/en/product/proposal-for-national-guidelines-for-open-access-to-scientific-information/
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the update, Stevie!
> >
> > Sounds great. Let's hope openly available as in cc-by and not as in
> > "you're only allowed to look at it through a frame on a hard-to-find
> > website".
> >
> > Dimi
> >
> > 2015-02-18 11:20 GMT+01:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk>:
> >
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> The Swedish Research Council has just proposed new guidelines on open
> >> access. To quote from their website
> >> <https://www.openaire.eu/newsletter-items/sweden-proposed-national-guidelines-for-open-access-to-scientific-information>
> >> :
> >>
> >> The basic principles in the proposed national guidelines are
> >> that scientific publications and artistic works, as well as research data
> >> forming the basis for scientific publications, that are the result of
> >> publicly funded research, must be openly available.
> >>
> >> I'm sure the devil is in the detail but this seems like excellent news!
> >> John and Jan, do you know much about this? What's the background?
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> Stevie
> >> --
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> From: James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org>
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> Subject: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Twitter v. Holder amicus brief
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> yeah, I know I've always been impressed at how often the amici can be
> quoted in opinions (my initial thought would actually be 'never'). I
> recently read an interesting (a bit old) study
> <http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3356&context=penn_law_review>
> about
> their influence in the supreme court (and I swear there was a more recent
> article about it that I read... but can't find it). Especially when they
> start piling up from tons of people on the sides I think they turn into a
> bit of a PR thing but the original purpose of them to give a more
> information to the court that the parties can't/don't give still seems to
> be around at least a bit.
>
> James Alexander
> Legal and Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation
> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Luis Villa <lvilla@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Stephen LaPorte <slaporte@wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Dimi,
> >>
> >> In the US, amicus briefs can have legal value as well as media value.
> >> Amici are not parties to the case, so it may not have the same weight as
> >> the parties' briefs, but it's an opportunity to add another perspective.
> >> Some advocacy organizations (like ACLU and EFF), as well as the US
> >> government, regularly file amicus briefs on potentially relevant topics.
> >>
> >
> > I should add that while there is a publicity angle (as there is to
> > anything in our modern world!) most lawyers are fairly reticent to create
> > or join amicus briefs merely for publicity - as a matter of professional
> > ethics in a formal legal document, the legal arguments still have to be
> > solid and persuasive.
> >
> > Luis
> >
> >
> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
> >> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Stephen,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for doing this! I do think we have an interest in this case and
> >>> questions about such letters have been raised even within our community.
> >>>
> >>> The way I understand it, an amicus brief is like a highly official
> >>> letter of support but has no palpable legal value. Do such documents play
> >>> any role for the court or is this rather targeted at the media?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>> Dimi
> >>>
> >>> 2015-02-18 6:56 GMT+01:00 Stephen LaPorte <slaporte@wikimedia.org>:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> We have joined six other organizations[1] in an amicus brief[2] in
> >>>> Twitter v. Holder.[3] Twitter initiated this action against the US
> >>>> government to establish the right to publish more detailed info about the
> >>>> number of national security letters it receives in its transparency report.
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] Aautomattic, Cloudflare, CREDOMobile, Medium, Sonic, and Wickr.
> >>>> [2]
> >>>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/5/54/Twitter_v_Holder_amicus.pdf
> >>>> [3] https://www.eff.org/cases/twitter-v-holder
> >>>>
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