Steve,

How do you measure community consensus?

By recent emails? Only?

Do you intend to rely on longstanding standing survey opinion?

On Friday, October 9, 2015, Stephen LaPorte slaporte@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi James,

Thank you for raising this point. If we see strong community consensus to take action against the TPP, we'll look into the best avenue for the Foundation to get involved in the debate.

Thanks, Stephen

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:48 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jsalsman@gmail.com');> wrote:

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Charles,

The work on mass digitization is very important. Thank you.

Given https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared does the Foundation have a plan to oppose the TPP in the Senate?

Can you tell me why my requests to oppose the TPP by joining other organizations' efforts were not acted on, please?

Do you agree that public policy advocacy actions should be evaluated by and weighted by the extent to which they support the Foundation's mission in proportion to utilitarian measures of community support?

On Friday, October 9, 2015, Charles M. Roslof <croslof@wikimedia.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','croslof@wikimedia.org');> wrote:

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Hi all,

Earlier this year, the U.S. Copyright Office proposed http://copyright.gov/policy/massdigitization/ a pilot program for extended collective licensing of mass digitization projects. Today, we submitted our comments to the Office. We criticized the pilot program for its misguided conception of mass digitization and the limitations it proposed for digital collections. We think these faults make the pilot program bad for free knowledge, and we urge the Copyright Office not to implement it as it is currently proposed.

You can read more about the comments in this blog post:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/09/access-mass-digitization/

You can read the comments here:

https://policy.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WMF-Mass-Digitizatio...

And you can help spread the message by following @wikimediapolicy https://twitter.com/wikimediapolicy on Twitter and retweeting us:

https://twitter.com/wikimediapolicy/status/652609998573297664

Thanks, Yana & Chuck

== Charles M. Roslof Intellectual Property & Internet Law Fellow Wikimedia Foundation croslof@wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885

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