Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/9/7 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
Is it possible to keep my proposal intact and address those issues?
Yes. Just put (This will allow your image to be used on Wikipedia)
next to the CC-BY-SA option.
This would suffer from exactly the same problem.
Sage Ross wrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM, wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
If someone write a piece of music and releases it under a CC-BY-SA
license, they can also allow uses under other conditions. Now assume
that you hear that music in some TV advert is the advert CC-BY-SA? Not
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:07 AM, wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
The last time someone just said 'Creative Commons license' on one of my
pics they were linking back to the flickr page which has the CC license
link. Now most dont bother saying CC though they do link back to the
flickr
For static timed text mv-embed library works reasonably well. It has a
simple interface for selecting the text track / language. What remains
to be done is an interface for people to collaboratively edit and
contribute the original transcript and translations. (some work has been
done in that
On the subject of Flickr, I have a proposal.
I'd like to see an option given to Flickr users to check license for
use on Wikipedia which would be an easy way for people to
a) make their pictures available to us and
b) easier to find by Wikipedians.
It could be argued that it should say license
That's a great idea. They might even do it...
Cheers,
Jovan Cormac
Bod Notbod wrote:
On the subject of Flickr, I have a proposal.
I'd like to see an option given to Flickr users to check license for
use on Wikipedia which would be an easy way for people to
a) make their pictures available
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Jovan Cormaclimu...@gmx.net wrote:
That's a great idea. They might even do it...
Thanks! :o)
I can't think of any huge reasons for them not to. I don't think it
would reduce their traffic. I suppose there's why should they? I
think it would be an improvement to
I met a few people helping out with Wikimania, including the lead
photographer on site, who got involved with the local Wikimedia
community after their photostream was found on Flickr and incorporated
into Wikipedia (es:wp)... Discovering your work has been used by
someone else is always a nice
Jovan Cormac wrote:
wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Secondly, just because YOU think something is PD or licensed under
Creative Commons does not mean that it is in reality so. For example
many images on flickr have been lifted from the web and the account
uploading them falsely
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Jovan Cormac wrote:
wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Secondly, just because YOU think something is PD or licensed under
Creative Commons does
Bod Notbod wrote:
On the subject of Flickr, I have a proposal.
I'd like to see an option given to Flickr users to check license for
use on Wikipedia which would be an easy way for people to
a) make their pictures available to us and
b) easier to find by Wikipedians.
You can already
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
I agree, vigilantism is not necessary and counter productive. The
Commons Force proposal represents a clear and present danger, both
for whoever hosts it and participates in it. It is not for a third
party to intervene in a contract between two people and only two
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Geoffrey Plourdegeo.p...@yahoo.com wrote:
The Commons Force proposal represents a clear and present danger, both for
whoever hosts it and participates in it. It is not for a third party to
intervene in a contract between two people and only two people.
This
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:40 PM, wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
On the subject of Flickr, I have a proposal.
I'd like to see an option given to Flickr users to check license for
use on Wikipedia which would be an easy way for people to
a) make their pictures available to us and
b)
Bod Notbod wrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:40 PM, wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
On the subject of Flickr, I have a proposal.
I'd like to see an option given to Flickr users to check license for
use on Wikipedia which would be an easy way for people to
a) make their pictures
Sage Ross wrote:
If a copyleft license is being violated, that is potentially of
concern beyond the two legal parties, since properly using the license
would mean that derivative works are also part of the commons and
available for others to use and adapt.
The problem is that YOU have no
2009/9/7 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Geoffrey Plourdegeo.p...@yahoo.com wrote:
The Commons Force proposal represents a clear and present danger, both for
whoever hosts it and participates in it. It is not for a third party to
intervene in a
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM, wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Sage Ross wrote:
If a copyleft license is being violated, that is potentially of
concern beyond the two legal parties, since properly using the license
would mean that derivative works are also part of the commons and
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM, wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
That's easily answered.
I'm not renaming the license. I'm proposing that there be a tick box
for that very same license with a more friendly tag that tells the
user can be used on Wikipedia. The license doesn't change, it's
2009/9/7 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
That's a very fair comment.
Is it possible to keep my proposal intact and address those issues?
Indeed. Just note on CC-by and CC-by-sa that they also make it
eligible for Wikipedia.
Offer a tickbox for asking Wikipedia reviewers to check your image,
2009/9/7 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
Is it possible to keep my proposal intact and address those issues?
Yes. Just put (This will allow your image to be used on Wikipedia)
next to the CC-BY-SA option.
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Sent: Monday, September 7, 2009 3:12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force
2009/9/7 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Geoffrey
: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM, wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Sage Ross wrote:
If a copyleft license is being violated, that is potentially of
concern beyond the two legal parties, since properly using the license
would mean that derivative works are also
Bod Notbod wrote:
I'd like to see an option given to Flickr users to check license for
use on Wikipedia which would be an easy way for people to
The problem with that kind of simplified explanation of what
CC-BY-SA means is that content that is licensed for use on
Wikipedia will be rejected
I'd like to propose a project I tentatively refer to as Commons Force (Meta
link: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsForce).
Commons Force is a wiki used to coordinate a force of volunteers who *actively*
educate people about the concepts of public domain and the Creative Commons.
That
I think a small interactive quiz or 30-60 sec videos at point of upload
/ contribution.. may help encourage people to get informed about these
subjects and properly tag the media. For media pulled from external
archive we should ideally only support importing compatible licensed media
I don't
Hoi,
I like the idea of a video that explains copyright and licenses. It is
however important that this video is subtitled.. What is the status of
subtitling for your software ??
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/9/6 Michael Dale d...@ucsc.edu
I think a small interactive quiz or 30-60 sec videos at
Michael, I'm afraid you didn't understand the proposal.
The proposal has nothing to do whatsoever with people contributing to
Commons not being educated about licenses. It's about contacting to
people *outside* of Commons, people who may not be involved in any
Wikimedia project, and tell them
Jovan Cormac, 06/09/2009 20:37:
The proposal has nothing to do whatsoever with people contributing to
Commons not being educated about licenses. It's about contacting to
people *outside* of Commons, people who may not be involved in any
Wikimedia project, and tell them about PD or CC media
Jovan Cormac wrote:
Michael, I'm afraid you didn't understand the proposal.
The proposal has nothing to do whatsoever with people contributing to
Commons not being educated about licenses. It's about contacting to
people *outside* of Commons, people who may not be involved in any
wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Firstly, people are NOT meant to be uploading content to flickr that
they did not take themselves.
They do, though.
If someone blogs the photo from flickr
then the flickr system will tag it as the work of the account that IOW
it will be falsely
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