[Wikimedia-l] [Advocacy Advisors] European Commission Copyright Consultation

[Luis Villa]

I've spent a good chunk of the day reading through the first 31 questions;
the comments on meta about those questions, and the responses proposed by
Dimi and others at http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/en/full/?guide=wikimedia

All the comments essentially agree, with only some small variations. Since
we don't have any serious splits of opinion, I think the idea of a combined
answer that represents this as the opinion of the Foundation makes sense.
(Not clear to what extent we should also represent this as the opinion of
Wikimedians - opinions welcome on that.)

With that goal in mind, I've drafted proposed answers to each question,
which incorporate comments from (among others) Seb35, Deryck C., Sapfan,
NaBUru38, Aktron, and Kaldari.

I think the best place to discuss individual answers is in the talk pages,
so I'll start uploading those shortly. I've also more-or-less copied this
email into
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:European_Commission_copyright_consultation#Goals_and_next_stepsif
people prefer to discuss there.

Luis



On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Michael Maggs <Michael at maggs.name> wrote:

> 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?
>
> The page says that the response "*can be submitted by the Wikimedia
> Foundation and other interested groups*", so perhaps the answers are
> merely intended as a resource others can use if they wish?
>
> If the intention is that a formal response will be submitted on behalf of
> the unincorporated group *Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU*, then it
> would be sensible for that group to register with the
> EU Transparency Register, here:
>
> http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/info/homePage.do?locale=en
>
> According to the EU, responses to the consultation from non-registered
> entities will "*be published separately from the registered
> organisations"*, which may mean less influence. See:
>
>
> http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2013/copyright-rules/index_en.htm
>
> (I note that the Foundation is not registered!)
>
> By the way, WMUK will be completing and filing its own separate response.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> From: Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com>
> Date: 21 January 2014 14:51
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] European Commission Copyright Consultation
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Just a quick reminder that we have 6 more days to collaboratively draft
> answers to the European Commission's copyright consultation.
>
> The idea is to give the global, online community a chance to come up with
> answers that, if coherent enough, can then be officially given to the
> Commission.
>
> We see this as a social experiment, since no one until now has ever
> attempted to answer collaboratively and publicly such short-termed and
> in-depth consultations.
>
> The corresponding link is:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/European_Commission_copyright_consultation
>
> Have fun answering!
>
> Dimi
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