On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 13:46, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 December 2011 09:42, Chris Keating <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> The Government has recently announced a consultation on about changes to >> copyright law. This follows a review of the existing arrangements by >> Professor Hargreaves over the summer. >> >> http://www.ipo.gov.uk/pro-policy/consult/consult-live/consult-2011-copyright.htm >> >> Do people feel we should respond? (Or to reverse the question, can anyone >> see good reasons for us *not* to respond? Just to be clear, charities are >> quite allowed to do things like this so long as lobbying doesn't become >> their main purpose...) > > I haven't read the consultation documents yet, but as a general rule I > think we should respond to any consultation about topics relevant to > us. It's a good way to get the relevant people to recognise our name > and to make sure they consider the impact of their decisions on a > section of our society, culture and economy that is very easy to > forget due to so few people really understanding it. >
I made a similar suggestion last year about making a response to the government's public consultation on the formation of the Public Data Corporation. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
