[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission Copyright Consultation

Tue Jan 28 16:30:48 UTC 2014

[Dropping wikimedia-l and wikimedia-uk, since we're down in the weeds a bit
now.]

My understanding is that it is optional, but yes, I believe we're
considering it.

Luis

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Michael Maggs <Michael at maggs.name> wrote:

> Hi Luis
>
> Just a reminder. You do know, I expect, that before filing a submission
> you are expected by the Commission to register the Foundation with the EU
> Transparency Register?  You are not registered yet.
>
> http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/info/homePage.do?locale=en
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
> ____________
> Michael Maggs
> Chair, Wikimedia UK
>
>
> On 28 Jan 2014, at 08:00, Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>

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