[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use
cross-posting -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomer Ashur tomeras...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM Subject: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, I am very proud to announce that Wikimedia Israel just won one of its main struggles. The Israeli government has announced[1] that all imaged in which the state is the copyrights holder and that were uploaded to the government's websites can be freely used with the following restrictions: 1. The image will be attributed to the state of Israel (or the relevant office) 2. The user cannot change the license (Share-alike) 3. No derivative work. 4. Each office will create a policy about commercial use (i.e., commercial use is allowed, unless otherwise specified). Wikimedia Israel has pushed for this change since 2010, when MK Meir Sheetrit proposed an amendment for the Israeli copyright act. The chapter pushed for the acceptance of this amendment by the Knesset (the Israeli parliament). During this time, we were able to make a complete shift in the paradigms employed by the government and government officials. From being strong opposers to the bill, they become adopters of the changes, thus making the bill itself, redundant. Now, a new struggle begins - Wikimedia Israel will work to remove the ND clause from the decision, and will make sure that all government offices publish their policy as required. Nonetheless, this is still a huge achievement, the government has accepted the importance of free culture in modern world. On a personal note, as the leader of this project, I wish to send my many thanks to all of those who made this miracle happen. A special thanks is due to the great people of the Israeli Internet society, the (just as great) people of Creative commons Israel, Adv. Jonathan Klinger, Mathias Schindler, the awsome volunteers of Wikimedia Israel and the editors of Hebrew Wikipedia. If there's anyone I forgot by name - my apologies, I'm still terribly excited of these news. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or send me a private email, Tomer Ashur Chairman Wikimedia Israel [1] http://www.pmo.gov.il/Secretary/GovDecisions/2012/Pages/des5268.aspx ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use
In order to get rid of the -ND clause, it may help to gather examples of derivative works. I just noticed that we do not keep track of these and thus started http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Derivative_versions . Daniel On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: cross-posting -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomer Ashur tomeras...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM Subject: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, I am very proud to announce that Wikimedia Israel just won one of its main struggles. The Israeli government has announced[1] that all imaged in which the state is the copyrights holder and that were uploaded to the government's websites can be freely used with the following restrictions: 1. The image will be attributed to the state of Israel (or the relevant office) 2. The user cannot change the license (Share-alike) 3. No derivative work. 4. Each office will create a policy about commercial use (i.e., commercial use is allowed, unless otherwise specified). Wikimedia Israel has pushed for this change since 2010, when MK Meir Sheetrit proposed an amendment for the Israeli copyright act. The chapter pushed for the acceptance of this amendment by the Knesset (the Israeli parliament). During this time, we were able to make a complete shift in the paradigms employed by the government and government officials. From being strong opposers to the bill, they become adopters of the changes, thus making the bill itself, redundant. Now, a new struggle begins - Wikimedia Israel will work to remove the ND clause from the decision, and will make sure that all government offices publish their policy as required. Nonetheless, this is still a huge achievement, the government has accepted the importance of free culture in modern world. On a personal note, as the leader of this project, I wish to send my many thanks to all of those who made this miracle happen. A special thanks is due to the great people of the Israeli Internet society, the (just as great) people of Creative commons Israel, Adv. Jonathan Klinger, Mathias Schindler, the awsome volunteers of Wikimedia Israel and the editors of Hebrew Wikipedia. If there's anyone I forgot by name - my apologies, I'm still terribly excited of these news. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or send me a private email, Tomer Ashur Chairman Wikimedia Israel [1] http://www.pmo.gov.il/Secretary/GovDecisions/2012/Pages/des5268.aspx ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use
Once I told to a guy from a secretary of education in Brazil that if he didn't remove the non-commertial restriction he could not have their resources used on Wikimedia projects with this restriction. I didn't need to argue too much, as I usually do, so it was the easiest negotiation I've ever saw. Although they still need to remove this restriction from old resources. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote: The license will be at minimum free as in beer. It will be up to the negotiation skills of WMIL to turn the actual license into a free one that satisfies the Definitions from Freedom Defined. -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use
Nice, Daniel, I didn't know this category. Just added on Jimbo Claus image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimbo_Claus.png Long life to the remix culture. :) On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com wrote: In order to get rid of the -ND clause, it may help to gather examples of derivative works. I just noticed that we do not keep track of these and thus started http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Derivative_versions . Daniel -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use
On 12/18/12 8:35 AM, Daniel Mietchen wrote: In order to get rid of the -ND clause, it may help to gather examples of derivative works. I just noticed that we do not keep track of these and thus started http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Derivative_versions . There are some existing categories that may be relevant to include in this tracking somehow, using the term edited rather than derivative: * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Edited_versions_of_Flickr_originals * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Edited_images -Mark ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
