[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission Copyright Consultation

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

Great to have these clarifications, Luis!

Just an additional link - the direct link to the answering guide is
http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/en/full/?guide=wikimedia

Dimi


2014-01-27 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>

>
> 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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