[Advocacy Advisors] European Commission's PSI Guidelines

Thu Jul 17 13:58:23 UTC 2014

+1. congrats to everyone who helped work on this.

tvol

On Thursday, July 17, 2014, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is now public.
>
> http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-840_en.htm
>
> It may be a small win, but it is a win nonetheless.
>
> Special tap on the shoulder for Mathias (Schindler) whose quick answers
> and knowledgeability helped win several important aguments at the hearing
> in Luxembourg last year!
>
>
> 2014-07-03 19:37 GMT+02:00 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lvilla at wikimedia.org');>>:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
>> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com');>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> *Commission implementation guidelines*
>>>
>>> While the document is not published yet, Szymon Lewandowski from the
>>> Commission presented the content that will be released in two weeks time.
>>> The Commission is recommending:
>>>
>>>    - Not licensing material that is already in the public domain
>>>    - Using cc-0 as a default license
>>>    - Using cc-by where a public sector body doesn't feel comfortable
>>>    with cc-0
>>>
>>>
>> Terrific news - thanks for sharing, Dimi. There will, of course, be
>> pushes for "compatible" licenses, but we'll deal with that when we come to
>> it...
>>
>> Luis
>>
>>
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