New subject: [Advocacy Advisors] European Commission Copyright Consultation

27 Jan 2014

Hi Dimitar

There is no need to turn FKAGEU into an incorporated entity in order to register on the
EU's Transparency Register.  The EU site specifically says that:

Networks, platforms or other forms of collective activity without a legal status or legal
personality but which constitute de facto a source of organised influence, and engaged in
activities falling within the scope of the register are expected to register. In such case
its members should identify one of their number as its responsible contact person for
their relations with the administration of the register.

http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/info/your-organisation/whoRegister…

It's not very clear what that means, but presumably something more than a loose
collection of interested individuals, as reference is made to "members", and the
form that needs to be filled in refers to "organisations".

Michael

On 27 Jan 2014, at 10:28, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov wrote:

...
  HI Michael,

 2014-01-27 Michael Maggs &lt;Michael(a)maggs.name&gt;
 It’s not clear to me what will be done with the answers proposed so far at 

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/European_Commission_copyright_consultation

 Will  they be submitted as they are, or is someone proposing to merge them into a single
version (even though many answers have been signed)?

 Also unclear unless I have missed something is who will the answers be submitted by, and
on whose behalf?  Only individuals - and not the Foundation nor chapters - have formally
posted answers so far, so is the intention that the answers will be submitted by and on
behalf of those individuals only?  

 We will try our best to merge the many different answers into a coherent set. If this
works, the WMF,chapters and individuals will be free to decide whether they wish to submit
these answers in their own name.  

 If the intention is that a formal response will be submitted on behalf of the
unincorporated group Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU, then it would be sensible for that
group to register with the EU Transparency Register, here:

 Inded,the intention for this was to have a more formal response (and sfety net, as we
couldn't have been sure how well the experiment on Meta-Wiki will work). In this case
again, each chapter and individual is free to use the answering set. As far as the
Transparency register is concerned, we cannot list the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU,
since it is not a legal entity. We do, however, have three chapters that are on this
register - WMDE, WMIT and WMMK. It is up to each and every chapter to do this step.
Alternatively we can talk about actually founding the FKAGEU, but that is a conversation
that need to be led in a differnt setting. 

 Dimi 

  From: Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
&lt;dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov(a)gmail.com&gt;
 Date: 21 January 2014 14:51
 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] European Commission Copyright Consultation
 To: Wikimedia Mailing List &lt;wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;

 Hi everyone,

 Just a quick reminder that we have 6 more days to collaboratively draft
 answers to the European Commission's copyright consultation.

 The idea is to give the global, online community a chance to come up with
 answers that, if coherent enough, can then be officially given to the
 Commission.

 We see this as a social experiment, since no one until now has ever
 attempted to answer collaboratively and publicly such short-termed and
 in-depth consultations.

 The corresponding link is:

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/European_Commission_copyright_consultation

 Have fun answering!

 Dimi
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