[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission Copyright Consultation

Mon Jan 27 17:09:42 UTC 2014

Hi Stevie,

yes, please have a look at it. If possible we should have the FKGAEU
registered. If you don't manage let me know and I will try. I have the
Brussels address anyway.

Dimi

2014-01-27 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>

> 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
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