Hi James, Thank you for raising this point. If we see strong community consensus to take action against the TPP, we'll look into the best avenue for the Foundation to get involved in the debate.
Thanks, Stephen On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:48 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > Charles, > > The work on mass digitization is very important. Thank you. > > Given > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared > does the Foundation have a plan to oppose the TPP in the Senate? > > Can you tell me why my requests to oppose the TPP by joining other > organizations' efforts were not acted on, please? > > Do you agree that public policy advocacy actions should be evaluated by > and weighted by the extent to which they support the Foundation's mission > in proportion to utilitarian measures of community support? > > > On Friday, October 9, 2015, Charles M. Roslof <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Earlier this year, the U.S. Copyright Office proposed >> <http://copyright.gov/policy/massdigitization/> a pilot program for >> extended collective licensing of mass digitization projects. Today, we >> submitted our comments to the Office. We criticized the pilot program for >> its misguided conception of mass digitization and the limitations it >> proposed for digital collections. We think these faults make the pilot >> program bad for free knowledge, and we urge the Copyright Office not to >> implement it as it is currently proposed. >> >> You can read more about the comments in this blog post: >> >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/09/access-mass-digitization/ >> >> You can read the comments here: >> >> >> https://policy.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WMF-Mass-Digitization-Comments.pdf >> >> And you can help spread the message by following @wikimediapolicy >> <https://twitter.com/wikimediapolicy> on Twitter and retweeting us: >> >> https://twitter.com/wikimediapolicy/status/652609998573297664 >> >> Thanks, >> Yana & Chuck >> >> == >> Charles M. Roslof >> Intellectual Property & Internet Law Fellow >> Wikimedia Foundation >> [email protected] >> (415) 839-6885 >> >> NOTICE: *This message might contain confidential or legally privileged >> information. If you have received this message by accident, please delete >> it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only serve >> as a legal fellow for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give >> legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or >> staff members in their personal* *capacity.* For more on what this >> means, please see our legal disclaimer >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > -- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.*
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