[Wikimediaindia-l] Improve Indian Biography Images Project
Hi all, I am working on a personal Wikipedia project aimed at getting more images of Notable Indians into Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons. I am calling it Improve Indian Biography Images Project for now... ( I know that it is a very boring title.. But if you want to suggest better names, do help me :) ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Improve_Indian_Biography_Images_Project The strategy is to use your influences to persuade people to donate their images to Wikipedia/Creative Commons. The result , in my opinion, would be 1) Better images of Notable Indians celebrities to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. 2) Improve the awareness of releasing the images to free licenses and Creative Commons. There are already two successes: Ashwin Sanghi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwin_Sanghi, author — Persuaded to change licenses of the images on Flickr to CC by SA. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with Flickr Bot Amish Tripathi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_Tripathi, author — Released 4 images on CC by SA by email. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons . OTRS pending I am already in talks with several others. One of the my learning from this exercise is that, while the celebrity might hold the copyrights of the images technically , it is also important to get signed consent of the actual photographer for transfer of the rights, if you are going via the OTRS route.. If someone instructs or pays another to take his photo, who holds the copyright? the photographer or the subject? In legal terms, it is always the photographer who is the copyright owner. The photographer should transfer the copyright by a contract or written terms if the subject needs to have the copyright. In most cases, it sound stupid, but that's how the law is written. ( Thanks to User:Sreejithk2000 for this gyan) Thoughts? Regards Tinu Cherian User:Tinucherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Improve Indian Biography Images Project
Good idea Tinu. I have many photos but mostly from literary worlds of Karnataka. I have already added some of them. Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of CherianTinu Abraham Sent: 04 July 2013 17:34 To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.; wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Improve Indian Biography Images Project Hi all, I am working on a personal Wikipedia project aimed at getting more images of Notable Indians into Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons. I am calling it Improve Indian Biography Images Project for now... ( I know that it is a very boring title.. But if you want to suggest better names, do help me :) ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Improve_Indian_Biography_Imag es_Project The strategy is to use your influences to persuade people to donate their images to Wikipedia/Creative Commons. The result , in my opinion, would be 1) Better images of Notable Indians celebrities to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. 2) Improve the awareness of releasing the images to free licenses and Creative Commons. There are already two successes: Ashwin Sanghi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwin_Sanghi , author - Persuaded to change licenses of the images on Flickr to CC by SA. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with Flickr Bot Amish Tripathi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_Tripathi , author - Released 4 images on CC by SA by email. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons . OTRS pending I am already in talks with several others. One of the my learning from this exercise is that, while the celebrity might hold the copyrights of the images technically , it is also important to get signed consent of the actual photographer for transfer of the rights, if you are going via the OTRS route.. If someone instructs or pays another to take his photo, who holds the copyright? the photographer or the subject? In legal terms, it is always the photographer who is the copyright owner. The photographer should transfer the copyright by a contract or written terms if the subject needs to have the copyright. In most cases, it sound stupid, but that's how the law is written. ( Thanks to User:Sreejithk2000 for this gyan) Thoughts? Regards Tinu Cherian User:Tinucherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Improve Indian Biography Images Project
Good initiative Tinu, I'll do my bit! On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.comwrote: Good idea Tinu. I have many photos but mostly from literary worlds of Karnataka. I have already added some of them. ** ** Regards, Pavanaja ** ** ** ** *From:* wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *CherianTinu Abraham *Sent:* 04 July 2013 17:34 *To:* Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.; wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Improve Indian Biography Images Project*** * ** ** Hi all, I am working on a personal Wikipedia project aimed at getting more images of Notable Indians into Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons. I am calling it Improve Indian Biography Images Project for now... ( I know that it is a very boring title.. But if you want to suggest better names, do help me :) ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Improve_Indian_Biography_Images_Project The strategy is to use your influences to persuade people to donate their images to Wikipedia/Creative Commons. The result , in my opinion, would be 1) Better images of Notable Indians celebrities to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. 2) Improve the awareness of releasing the images to free licenses and Creative Commons. There are already two successes: Ashwin Sanghi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwin_Sanghi, author — Persuaded to change licenses of the images on Flickr to CC by SA. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with Flickr Bot Amish Tripathi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_Tripathi, author — Released 4 images on CC by SA by email. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons . OTRS pending I am already in talks with several others. One of the my learning from this exercise is that, while the celebrity might hold the copyrights of the images technically , it is also important to get signed consent of the actual photographer for transfer of the rights, if you are going via the OTRS route.. If someone instructs or pays another to take his photo, who holds the copyright? the photographer or the subject? In legal terms, it is always the photographer who is the copyright owner. The photographer should transfer the copyright by a contract or written terms if the subject needs to have the copyright. In most cases, it sound stupid, but that's how the law is written. ( Thanks to User:Sreejithk2000 for this gyan) Thoughts? Regards Tinu Cherian User:Tinucherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter todayhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
