Internal:Public Policy/Reply to WMF questions about copyright advocacy, April 2023

• 1. What copyright public policy advocacy reforms have you pursued, and what are the motives for pursuing those changes in your community?

Public statements and official comments regarding orphan works

Input to California state regarding copyright?

We signed on to a petition to support copyright exceptions to allow GLAMs to make backups Internal:Public Policy/Allowing digital backups by GLAMs (June 2020)

Public domain day -- new works from 1923 are freed from copyright. Details: [1], [2], [3]. We co-organized a forum at American University's law school with AU's PIJIP program to discuss copyright changes expanding the public domain and new works becoming copyright-free as of January 1. (Jan 2019)

PBM took CopyrightX, perhaps in 2018 or 2019

Presentation at Wikimania (Oct 8 2016)?

Presentation at San Diego WCNA

May 5, 2018: Wikimedia DC statement supporting Senate action to restore Net Neutrality‎‎

March 2014, visited Congress?

The chapter held events at Cato Institute, the Sunlight Foundation and American University's Washington College of Law

How should copyright rules be changed to allow more use of orphan works? Our published answer (May 2014)

• 2. What advocacy tactics did and did not work? What blockers did you face? What would you do differently?

• 3. What would have helped you - what support would you have wanted from WMF, and what support would you have wanted from other Affiliates?

• 4. How, if at all, did you collaborate with other organizations to help advocate for copyright reform in your community?

• 5. What challenges, if any, do you face when building partnerships with other organizations interested in advancing copyright reforms?

Mainly time and expertise. We expect to naturally align most of the time library advocates, Internet Archive, EFF, Open Data advocates, Open Government advocates, etc.

• 6. Can you share links, documentation, or other materials that you produced as part of your advocacy efforts that might be relevant to us?

Yes, above and below

• 7. Is there anything else you would like to share with us about copyright advocacy?