The WMF isn't allowed to lobby for or against legislation, per our 501c3 non-profit status in the US. This is not necessarily true for chapters though, and definitely not true for the communities.
Ryan Kaldari On 10/4/11 4:33 PM, Thomas Goldammer wrote: > 2011/10/5 John Vandenberg<[email protected]>: >> The WMF is very unlikely to approve of this, as that would be >> influencing legislation. >> > Why should the WMF not (at least try to) influence legislation if that > helps the goal of distributing free knowledge? I think it should do > exactly that, whenever possible and suitable, as for instance in this > case. And it is done by chapters already. Wikimedia Serbia has made a > good example in this Italian law case on how that can be done (thx to > Milos), namely for example by writing WM-official protest or support > notes to politicians, embassadors, etc. Another such thing was what WM > Germany did in the past for state or federal elections, when they > interviewed the candidating parties about certain questions relevant > for the free knowledge movement and publishing these interviews, which > is a much more indirect way to influence legislation, but still. > > BR > Th. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
