Wikimedia Israel is working on the law and we're in discussion with the
different government agencies to see if we need to change the law. We got
the ball rolling when we were invited to a Knesset (Israel's parliament)
discussion in honor of Hebrew Wikipedia's 100,000th article. By the way -
Wikimania 2011 will be in Haifa - hope to see y'all there!
That's what I do on my free time.
My day job is - Educational Director of "Israel Connect", a program twinning
Jewish schools from around the world with their peers in Israel. See
www.israelconnect.org and www.facebook.com/israelconnect ("Like"!) for more
details.
All the best from Winnipeg (where I am raising funds for Israel Connect -
any leads would be welcome),
Amihai
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <
mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Amihai,
>
> That's fantastic news! Which department is leading the effort in Israel for
> open licensing? What license will you be using? What work are you doing in
> the education sector?
>
> Would love to learn more!
>
> Keep up the good work.
>
> Cheers
> Wayne
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Amihai Bannett <
> buildingjewishwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wayne, much success on our quest to add to world knowledge.
>> Here in Israel - we're working the 'Wikipedia Law", which will release the
>> rights of all pictures taken by government employees for the free use of the
>> public.
>>
>> 3 more readings left!
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>>
>> Amihai Bannett
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <
>> mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Never a dull moment in the free culture world. Ordinarily -- I would not
>>> post public notifications around potential misunderstandings or oversights
>>> by a publisher. However, I find myself facing an ethical dilemma.
>>> Particularly since today I'm been commenting considerably on my personal
>>> ethics and views associated with the non-commercial restriction on our
>>> national New Zealand MLE list.
>>>
>>> I was recently invited to write the forward for a new publication -- a
>>> book of tweets on open text books. Great idea, very cool and appropriate for
>>> our times. In response to the invite, my very first question was was:
>>>
>>> "More than happy to provide a "tweet" -- what license will you be
>>> publishing the book under?"
>>>
>>> Response:
>>>
>>> "We will be doing this under Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike
>>> license- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
>>> That is the current plan. Any interest in co-authoring?"
>>>
>>> My response:
>>>
>>> "I always check that anything I write is published under a free cultural
>>> works approved license :-) I would love to co-author"
>>>
>>> So I do my bit, read the text, write a short forward and contribute a
>>> tweet. I now see that the book has been published under a CC-BY-NC-SA
>>> license -- which is very unfortunate, because I think its a great text and
>>> it seems that there has been an oversight in attributing my contributions
>>> under a license which meets the free cultural works definition which was a
>>> condition of my contribution. (See:
>>> http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/opentextbooktweet01.php). I've asked
>>> the publishes to print and distribute an erratum indicating that my personal
>>> contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA on the basis of our original
>>> agreement. I'm confident that they will do the right thing.
>>>
>>> When I submitted my tweet, I wrote:
>>>
>>> "This is licensed under CC-BY which will enable a derivative under
>>> CC-BY-SA." I did this work during official time, and my employers IP policy
>>> requires that I release my work under a default CC-BY license."
>>>
>>> If there were any communications from the publisher in the interim about
>>> changing the license -- I missed these ;-(. Moreover, for the record, I
>>> would not have agreed to having anything I write published under an NC
>>> license.
>>>
>>> It's ironic that while the book carries a NC restriction -- the
>>> international public can purchase the texts, hard copy or ebook for a listed
>>> price of $19.95 or $14,95 and see that currently some discount applies.
>>>
>>> Anway -- this is a public announcement that my forward is licensed under
>>> a CC-BY-SA license and my tweet - No 31 is openly licensed under a free
>>> cultural works approved license (CC-BY) in this case. The publisher was free
>>> to add an NC restriction on the tweet - -but has omitted to attribute the
>>> source :-(. For the record, both versions of the texts I submitted are
>>> licensed under a CC-BY license. You are free to take these texts, reuse
>>> them, adapt them, modify them and if you like sell them :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Wayne
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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