Submissions:2016/Public Policy Advocacy Across Both Coasts

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Title
Public Policy Advocacy Across Both Coasts
Theme
Policy and outreach
Academic Peer Review option
no
Type of submission
Panel
Author
John Sadowski, Peter Meyer, Charles Roslof
E-mail address
jpsadowski@post.harvard.edu
Username
Antony-22
Affiliation
Wikimedia District of Columbia / Wikimedia Foundation
Abstract
Under construction. This will be a joint panel discussion containing members of both the Wikimedia Foundation's legal team and Wikimedia District of Columbia's Public Policy Committee.
We will discuss how each organization approaches public policy, and how we participate in policy conversations. We will discuss the limits on lobbying that we face as nonprofits, the meetings and discussions we have had with government officials (including congressional staff and a member of the European parliament), and the process of submitting written statements to government bodies.
We will recount our recent and ongoing advocacy efforts, on topics such as orphan works reform, the public domain status of California state government works, the US copyright notice-and-takedown system, and a content removal in Canada.
We will describe some recent court decisions as well as the US federal government efforts toward open data and open source policy, which are likely to make it easier for government staff to work cooperatively on Wikimedia software and data and for Wikimedians to make use of what the government can offer.
Length of presentation
30-45 min.
Special schedule requests
Afternoon preferred
Preferred room size
25-50
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Yes

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