[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission Copyright Consultation

Tue Jan 28 19:38:04 UTC 2014

FYI Creative Commons registered a few years ago. It's relatively painless,
but does require you to get some numbers from your finances dept. And you
just have to update it once per year.

tvol

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> HI,
>
> about the Transparency Register - you can indeed submit answers without
> being registered. Of course, having a registration is advisable in the long
> run if one plans to do more things with the EU, but it is not (yet)
> compulsory.
>
> Dimi
>
>
> 2014-01-28 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>
>
>>  [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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Luis Villa
>> Deputy General Counsel
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> 415.839.6885 ext. 6810
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