[Advocacy Advisors] 2nd EU Policy Monitoring Report

Wed Jul 3 23:35:10 UTC 2013

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Luis,
>
> About the mid-term reports on all four work groups, I can tell you more on
> Friday, as they're beeing presented tomorrow.
>
> About the withdrawals from the text and data mining work group, there is a
> short Communia article on it [1] and the letter sent to the European
> Commission is also published [2].
>

That was my main interest (though I am also curious about the rest); thank
you for sending the links.

Speaking for myself and not necessarily for WMF, I think that the Wikimedia
movement has an important role to play in copyright reform, since we are
the biggest and most high-profile example of how a broader information
commons can benefit everyone. I'm just not sure how we get there yet :) So
I'm very curious about what other similar groups are doing.

> Furthermore, I am in touch with somebody from Open Forum Europe [3], who
> has been participating in this work group. If you have any questions I'd be
> happy to ask for you or even just make the connection.
>

I would be happy to be introduced! That said, I of course can't promise
much - we need more consensus here before taking any actions.

Thanks-
Luis

> Dimi
>
>
> [1]
> http://www.communia-association.org/2013/05/25/research-sector-smes-civil-society-groups-and-open-access-publishers-withdraw-from-licences-for-europe-dialogue-on-text-and-data-mining/
> [2]
> http://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default/files/Letter_of_withdrawalL4E_TDM_May%2024_1.pdf
> [3] http://www.openforumeurope.org/
>
>
> 2013/7/2 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Dimitar Dimitrov <
>> dimitar.dimitrov at wikimedia.de> wrote:
>>
>>> The midterm report for the four work groups will be presented July 4th.
>>> Meanwhile several major non-for-profits, like Communia and the Open
>>> Knowledge Foundation, have withdrawn from the work group on text and data
>>> mining, complaining mainly about the narrow scope of discussions.
>>>
>>
>> Hi, Dimitar-
>> I'd be curious to hear more about this. Any pointers or links? Thanks!
>>
>> Luis
>>
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