[Advocacy Advisors] leak of EU Commission copyright whitepaper

[Luis Villa]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> As long as copyright remians an economic tool within DG MARKT, we will
> need to talk about economic benefits of free knowledge in order to be taken
> seriously. Talking only about cultural, democratic and educational benefits
> will relegate us to the role of a second-class stakeholder.


I'm not at all optimistic about changing that framing here in the US, but
any realistic chance of doing it in the EU?

Luis


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