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

[Nikolas Becker]

Thank you all for taking care of this! What Dimi wrote about the perception
of our experiment is really promising.

I consider the part about "Limitations and exceptions in the Single Market"
as well as the question about terms the most important. Here we really need
convincing and well phrased answers.

After having completed my move to San Diego next week, I will hopefully
have time to address myself to this questionnaire in detail.

Cheers
Nikolas


Nikolas Becker

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2013/12/17 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com>

> 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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