[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission Copyright Consultation

[Stevie Benton]

Hello everyone,

I will be registering Wikimedia UK on the transparency register later on
this week (tomorrow, I hope).

Dimi, shall I look at registering the FKAGEU while I'm at it? Given
Michael's comment above it seems perfectly reasonable for the group to be
registered.

Thanks and regards,

Stevie


On 27 January 2014 12:13, Michael Maggs <Michael at maggs.name> wrote:

> 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.do?locale=en
>
> 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 <Michael at maggs.name>
>
>> 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 <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com>
>> Date: 21 January 2014 14:51
>> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] European Commission Copyright Consultation
>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Advocacy_Advisors mailing list
>> Advocacy_Advisors at lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Advocacy_Advisors mailing list
> Advocacy_Advisors at lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Advocacy_Advisors mailing list
> Advocacy_Advisors at lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors
>
>


-- 

Stevie Benton
Head of External Relations
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton

Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England
and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513.
Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street,
London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a
global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the
Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).

*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal
control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/attachments/20140127/b6a848db/attachment-0001.html>