Talk:Advocacy

Potential advocacy areas

I added the following advocacy items, based on Dimi's suggestion on Advocacy Advisors. These are only a starting point for discussion -- feel free to add new topics or re-structure the list. - Stephen LaPorte (WMF) (talk) 20:42, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Draft list

• Fundamental goals
  • Shorten (or prevent extension) of copyright terms
  • Raising threshold for required added creativity
  • Standardized limitations and exceptions
  • Opt-in copyright system (like patent law)

• Issue-oriented goals
  • Government Works (We need to discuss the relationship between government works/publicly funded works and what we want to go for.)
  • Freedom of Panorama
  • Orphan Works
  • Open Access/Open Educational Resources (in OA we want freely licensed content, therefore I am grouping these two together)

There are two things about the above list I'd like to have discussed:

• Should we concentrate on government created works or on government funded works or on publicly funded works?
• Is it enough to talk about opt-in copyright or do we need to also specifically mention orphan works?

--Dimi z (talk) 21:00, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

• I think each of these three need the attention. The first priority is the government created works.
• I think it would be good to mention orphan works as that is probably less problematic.

Romaine (talk) 16:28, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Just also wanted to add, that most of the above is in line with the Strategic Planning, at least on the movement's side. --Dimi z (talk) 12:08, 4 December 2013 (UTC)