[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission Copyright Consultation

Mon Jan 27 17:11:58 UTC 2014

OK, great. I'll take a look tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

Stevie

On 27 January 2014 17:09, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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@StevieBenton

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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).

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