Hey John, welcome to the club! Best, Lodewijk
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:38 PM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy > Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of > you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible > laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most > daunting task I had to date. > > By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field > of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm > iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer > Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started > I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid > contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy > and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC > does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. > There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide > network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how > to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction. > > From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to > net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE > inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also > already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian > in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well > as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy > advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework > and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and > international level. > > Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking > forward to working with this great bunch of people. > > Kind regards > > -- > John H. Weitzmann > Referent für Politik und Recht > Legal and Policy Advisor > > Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 > http://wikimedia.de > > Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen > Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > >
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