Steve, How do you measure community consensus?
By recent emails? Only? Do you intend to rely on longstanding standing survey opinion? On Friday, October 9, 2015, Stephen LaPorte <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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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