[Wikimedia-l] Study: Nobody cares about your copyright

2012-05-28 Thread Andrew Gray
On Monday, 21 May 2012, Samuel Klein wrote: O'Reilly is offering works under 14 years (c), thence CC-by Campaign idea: set up a named class of license for friendly groups like O'Reilly that are committing to 14 years, which are defined by terming out in no more than 14 years to CC0 or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Study: Nobody cares about your copyright

2012-05-28 Thread Tom Morris
On 28 May 2012 22:37, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love to see -NC and -ND dropped from the CC catalog, but I doubt its going to happen. It would be nice if -NC and -ND had a time limit on them, after which the work becomes CC-BY or CC-BY-SA. Although NC and ND cause pain

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Academics and accessible writing

2012-05-28 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/5/29 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com: Thoughts? Do people from non-English outreach programs to academics have any similar experiences? Depends on the particular project and the people involved. In a project about Tort law we got several dozens of Hebrew articles about the subject

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Academics and accessible writing

2012-05-28 Thread Ms. Anne Frazer
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:30 AM Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: But I was left with a nagging annoyance: these articles are almost all incomprehensible to someone without a advanced college education and a high degree of proficiency in English. Topics as basic as [[job