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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western">On behalf of the
steering committee of the Manila Principles project, participants
on this list are invited to join us as we develop the Manila
Principles on Intermediary Liability, which we are aiming to
launch at an event on 22-23 March in Manila, ahead of RightsCon
2015 Southeast Asia.<br>
<br>
The Manila Principles will be a best practices framework and set
of baseline safeguards for regulators and intermediaries to
consider when developing, adopting, and reviewing legislation,
policies and practices that extend liability to intermediaries for
online third party content. Their objective is to promote the
development of more principled, interoperable, and harmonized
liability regimes that can promote users' rights and innovation.<br>
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The steering committee of the project which has developed an
initial draft for discussion is a small but geographically diverse
group including Centre for Internet and Society (India),
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (USA), Article 19 (UK and
global), Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) (Argentina),
Derechos Digitales (Chile), KICTANET (Kenya), and OpenNet Korea.<br>
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The outputs of their initial preparatory work consist of a short
document containing the draft principles themselves, and a longer
background paper which explains the rationale behind them and
includes references to previous work on this topic. PDF, Word
and OpenDocument versions are available on request, and Google
Docs links to both, where you can add comments, are found here:<br>
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<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kAkqgt3cRb65d8ik6vWYgpk6DYpP8ABA43ljgDiGOf8/edit#heading=h.9kpzf1ul1zfg">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kAkqgt3cRb65d8ik6vWYgpk6DYpP8ABA43ljgDiGOf8/edit#heading=h.9kpzf1ul1zfg</a>
(the Manila Principles)</li>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QfxH1jX_ewfB8TV5iQBSloyttjwaMP47nwblMzN4Hg4/edit#heading=h.tqnj2pprtelu">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QfxH1jX_ewfB8TV5iQBSloyttjwaMP47nwblMzN4Hg4/edit#heading=h.tqnj2pprtelu</a>
(the Background Paper)<br>
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We would be very grateful if you could find the time to attend an
initial web conference to discuss the project, and to offer your
comments on the drafts over the next three months leading up to
the meeting in Manila. We also hope that you may be interested in
participating in that meeting, the agenda for which remains open.
Some travel support may be offered to selected participants.<br>
<br>
If you are interested in participating - and we hope you are -
please respond to this survey, which will enable us to ensure that
you are included in the ongoing discussions and receive a link to
participate in the web conference:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doodle.com/9tz52mryh7xz42ya">https://doodle.com/9tz52mryh7xz42ya</a><br>
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Even if you cannot attend the web conference, but are interested
in contributing to the development of the principles online, you
should still complete the poll by selecting "Cannot make it" and
confirming your email address, so that we can add you to the
working group which will be finalising the text. Our aim is to
have received all comments on the text by mid-February 2015, to
leave time to integrate them all.<br>
<br>
Please also feel free to forward this message to any colleagues
whom you think may also be interested in participating. Although
the draft text is certainly not "top secret", we suggest that you
refraining from publishing the principles, tweeting, blogging etc
until the final draft is published, to minimise confusion about
whether they have already been agreed.<br>
<br>
Many thanks, and we look forward to working with you as we jointly
develop and launch the Manila Principles on Intermediary
Liability.<br>
<br>
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Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://eff.org">https://eff.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org">jmalcolm@eff.org</a>
Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
:: Defending Your Rights in the Digital World ::</pre>
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