[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission Copyright Consultation

[Luis Villa]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> 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.
>

I think our idea when we proposed this was that the Foundation would use
these responses as the basis of the formal Foundation response. I hope to
start pulling those together this afternoon and post them for brief review
comment in the next few days; we'll then take that and turn it into a
better formatted answer.

Chapters would of course also be free to use them, though I think many of
the EU-based chapters are planning to use the excellent answers at
http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/ (which we will also use as a reference where
the people contributing on-wiki have not answered, or have only given a
very small number of answers).

We're still learning/experimenting here, so thoughts/comments/etc. totally
welcome!

Luis



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