[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission's PSI Guidelines

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

This is now public.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-840_en.htm

It may be a small win, but it is a win nonetheless.

Special tap on the shoulder for Mathias (Schindler) whose quick answers and
knowledgeability helped win several important aguments at the hearing in
Luxembourg last year!


2014-07-03 19:37 GMT+02:00 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>:

>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *Commission implementation guidelines*
>>
>> While the document is not published yet, Szymon Lewandowski from the
>> Commission presented the content that will be released in two weeks time.
>> The Commission is recommending:
>>
>>    - Not licensing material that is already in the public domain
>>    - Using cc-0 as a default license
>>    - Using cc-by where a public sector body doesn't feel comfortable
>>    with cc-0
>>
>>
> Terrific news - thanks for sharing, Dimi. There will, of course, be pushes
> for "compatible" licenses, but we'll deal with that when we come to it...
>
> Luis
>
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