[Advocacy Advisors] Meta discussion: European Commission public consultation on copyright - Publicpolicy

17 Dec 2013

Hello advocacy advisory group,

Here is a thought: let's collaboratively draft a public response on wiki.
We can use the resulting page as the Wikimedia Foundation's submission to
the consultation, or as a reference point for other interested groups. To
get started, Dashiell posted the EC's questions on Meta, here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/European_Commission_copyright_consultation

The submission deadline is February 5, 2014, so if we intend to respond, we
should start finalizing our submission on January 27, 2014. The process
here is experimental, so feel free to discuss process on the list or the
corresponding talk page.

This may be an important opportunity for us to influence the future of
copyright law (and free knowledge), so I am interested in hearing your
perspective.

Best,
Stephen

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Stevie Benton <
stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk&gt; wrote:

...
  Hello everyone,

 Thought you might like to know that the European Commission has just
 opened a public consultation on copyright.

 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1213_en.htm

 Any thoughts?

 Stevie

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