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:
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.
P.
On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 11:16, Dimi Dimitrov <dimi(a)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),
- *mitigation measures linked to generative AI* (e.g. watermarks,
making an effort to ensure AIs are trained on reliable sources, red-teaming
exercises),
- *cooperation with national authorities, independent experts and civil
society organisations*,
- specific recommendations for during the election period (put in
place an *internal incident response mechanism*),
- 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(a)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(a)wikimedia.be>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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