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

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

Hi,

just a quick update. EDRi and some other civil society orgs have asked the
Commission for an extension of the deadline. Today, I did the same - both
in writing and in person at a Christmas cocktail event at the IPR
Observatory I am coming back from just now. Seen that there won't be a new
Commission until the third quarter of 2014 this request is likely to be
granted. I believe that having a few extra weeks might be crucial for
collaboratively drafting answers. Will keep you posted.

On a side note: People from DG Markt and the rest of the Brussels crowd are
really, really curious at our "user-generated" experiment. If we pull it
off, this might be "big". It surely gets people's attention for now.

Dimi


2013/12/17 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>

> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Stephen LaPorte <slaporte at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I just want to second this! Three big points, for me:
>
> 1. As Mathias mentioned here, WMDE and other European chapters plan to
> draft an answer. We're suggesting this as a complement to those plans, not
> a replacement!
>
> 2. Obviously, copyright reform could potentially be either a big positive
> or big negative for our work as supporters of free knowledge, so I think
> this proposal is in the heart of the movement's potential advocacy goals.
>
> 3. Stephen and I (as well as our intern Dash, cc'd) will be approaching
> this as partners in the drafting effort, working on this as time permits
> (in contrast with projects like the trademark and privacy policies, where
> LCA has done essentially all of the drafting). So this will require
> drafting and collaboration from other interested people if it is to succeed.
>
> 4. Hopefully this isn't a surprise, but I think collaboratively writing
> answers to public government requests like this one is a good thing for us
> to do. So I really hope we can use this not just to write the response, but
> to begin to work out practices that we can use together in the future.
>
> Luis
>
>
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