[Advocacy Advisors] EU to tackle copyright reform

Mon Dec 10 13:01:42 UTC 2012

Hello Jan,

Thank you for your great words and encouragement. I really believe that the
more chapters take part, the more chances we will have. Since I am a member
I am currently convincing WMAT to join the Transparency Register, since
they could put me on the list to get access to the Parliament (daily passes
and the like). Since I am currently involved in the founding of WMBE,
people here are quite enthusiastic to help. They have contacted WMNL.

I was lucky enough to attend a Creative Commons Belgium Relaunch event in
Brussels this weekend. The CC people (a law professor from Namur
specialising in copyright and a law student from Leuven) are really
interested to join and perhaps even have a common position. I also got in
touch with some authors' rights representative organisations, but there are
a lot of them in Belgium, so it's hard to  map them yet.

I am thinking now how to pool people's brain power. Mailing list, wiki page
and the like. I will set up a ad-hoc wiki page on the WMBE wiki tonight.
For now I am sharing a document
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fbpy6ijkYS3QJpn9biRjBqjPWy_zCPHkC3O_CLW8764/edit>(personal)
where I just throw in the positions of people, parties and groups I have
reserached. My goal is to make it into a comprehensive doucment. I will
also continue to track and write reports about meetingsa and going-ons here.

>. It's necessary to professionalize the way how we address our concerns,
if we want to make a difference in Bruxelles.

I completely agree. I am training in a lobbying office now and they are
happy to give me some free time to attend events I am interested in, so at
least till the end of March I will have it covered. But in the long run
it'd be problem. Also, my employer doesn't get me into all the events,
since I am not alone, so more Transperency Register registrations would be
welcome.

> Maybe we should also think about a RL meeting for all
Wikipedians/Wikimedians who like to be part of the process.

>
This sounds like a great idea. If we go for it I and the local volunteers I
met here would be more than happy to organise something (If we opt for
Burssels). The benefit of doing it here would be that we could invite
people from the institutions.

Anwyay, I will keep this thread/mailing list posted about the developments
for now. Any feedback or help is always welcome.

Cheers,
Dimi
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