[Advocacy Advisors] Draft letter to UK MEPs on copyright

Fri Mar 21 18:19:05 UTC 2014

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the initiative! A point that might be taken into account for
future initiatives: Instead of talking just about "our" situation (we can't
use), we imho should frame this as a general problem: "Free and open media
can't use ..." or s.th. like that ...

Cheerio
Niko

Nikolas Becker

Chair of the Board/Vorsitzender
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.

Tempelhofer Ufer 23/24
10963 Berlin

www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B.
Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

2014-03-21 9:12 GMT-07:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>:

> Hello again,
>
> Thanks once more for the useful feedback. The letter has now been sent.
> The final print version can be seen at
> https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/File:Letter_to_MEPs_with_images.pdf
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Stevie
>
>
> On 19 March 2014 12:56, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Just to pick this up once more.
>>
>> Matthias, I take your point about the turnover of MEPs. But the sooner we
>> get this out, the sooner people begin paying attention. If we wait for a
>> perfect time - like some other groups - we will likely get lost in the
>> noise. There's no reason we can't follow-up with newly elected MEPs in the
>> summer. Also, I see what you mean about Big Ben potentially being
>> misinterpreted. It's also not a great example as it would be out of
>> copyright anyway, so am going to use a different image.
>>
>> Bence - that was a useful spot, thank you. The updated version has the
>> links as footnotes.
>>
>> I'm going to make some changes to the letter today and I'm hoping to get
>> the final version printed and sent by the end of the week.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
>> Stevie
>>
>>
>> On 14 March 2014 09:28, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you everyone for your thoughtful comments. These will be taken
>>> into consideration for the final version of the letter which is likely to
>>> be printed and posted today.
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>>
>>> Stevie
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 March 2014 09:11, Mathias Schindler <
>>> mathias.schindler at wikimedia.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2014-03-14 9:54 GMT+01:00 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
>>>> <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > As to Mathias' comment on the MEPs: Yes, there will be some
>>>> considerable
>>>> > turnover, but at the same time politicians are most likely to pay
>>>> attention
>>>> > to such a thing before election time. Sending it out just to the ones
>>>> we
>>>> > believe might get reelected would be - diplomatically speaking - bad
>>>> > diplomacy. Can't we just resend it after the elections to just the
>>>> newly
>>>> > elected MEPs?
>>>>
>>>> There is already too much bad diplomacy out there, so thanks for Dimis
>>>> argument. As you can see from
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2014_(United_Kingdom)#Current_MEPs_by_European_Political_Group
>>>> ,
>>>> the number of parties who did send MEPs to Brussels was considerable.
>>>> It would be possible to send such a letter to the parties before the
>>>> election and to the specific elected MEPs afterwards.
>>>>
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>>> @StevieBenton
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Stevie Benton
>> Head of External Relations
>> Wikimedia UK+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
>> @StevieBenton
>>
>> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England 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).
>>
>> *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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> Stevie Benton
> Head of External Relations
> Wikimedia UK+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
> @StevieBenton
>
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