[Advocacy Advisors] [Wikimediauk-l] EU copyright consultation deadline has beenextended

[Amgine]

This is just a comment on an important marketing characteristic. If the pro-copyright side is trying to co-opt the concept of 'creators' as indicating *them*, this would be a particular issue to push back on - and Wikimedians in particular want to be recognized as creators.

(In general, people are much more likely to support creators, and less likely to support a rather small number of corporations who own or manage the rights of creative works.)

Amgine


On 10 Feb 2014, at 9:49, Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi, Aktron-
> 
> First, thanks for all your contributions on-wiki! Much appreciated - hope you like my answers (all of which are up now for people to review/discuss/use for their own answers).
> 
> About the other groups - do you think the community should be doing more to get Wikimedians to submit answers? I'm open to the idea, but not sure how best to make that happen (or even if it is a good idea- Dimi?)
> 
> Luis
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:21 AM, <aktron at centrum.cz> wrote:
> Luis,
> 
> Two days ago I've been informed about the fact that institutions that are standing on the other side of the barrier (ie. so-called "creators") already have their own initiative (creators for Europe) and they massively spam all the "creators", asking for their support (ie. against free knowledge and for more strict protection of their position - the good topic might be the PD-70 deadline that is also currently ... a matter of negotiation).
>  
> As far as I can see, the number of responses sent to the Commission from them is supposed to be similar to what Copywrongs sent (cca 3k), so it is an interesting question what the final result will be. 
>  
> I also got informations that certain political (ie. Pirate) parties plan to post billboards (tens of them) to support the copyright consultations and to make the general public more engaged in this. So we'll see - I am also posting this so that WM will be aware about things that are currently going on.
>  
> Jan Loužek - Aktron
> Wikimedia Czech Republic
> vice-chairman
>  
> ______________________________________________________________
> > Od: Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>
> > Komu: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>
> > Datum: 04.02.2014 16:26
> > Předmět: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] [Wikimediauk-l] EU copyright consultation deadline has beenextended
> >
> I changed the schedule yesterday morning- where are you looking?
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=European_Commission_copyright_consultation&diff=prev&oldid=7334381
> Luis
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> Quick query - given the extensions, have we filed the WMF submission
> yet or are we holding off for further comments through February? Not
> clear from the meta page...
> 
> A.
> 
> On 31 January 2014 23:25, Michael Maggs <Michael at maggs.name> wrote:
> > Thanks for the update. Not sure how "terrific" I find that news, personally,
> > given that I have spent around 20 hours over the last two days working to
> > meet the original deadline!
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > ____________
> > Michael Maggs
> > Chair, Wikimedia UK
> >
> > On 31 Jan 2014, at 23:10, Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > That's terrific to hear!
> >
> > As an update on my end, I've done up to question 71, so this gives us a
> > little more time to review and flesh those out.
> >
> > [For what it is worth, Michael, looking at the page here shows:
> >
> > From 05.12.2013 to 05.03.2014 (deadline extended).
> >
> > ]
> >
> > Luis
> >
> >
> >
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