Clever idea Andy, lets hope it becomes popular Maybe people could leave a voice sample, a picture? and
*the option of having any of their remaining intellectual property rights to be given to the world in the event of their death. - ie no 70 years of waiting for a useful but valueless orphan image * Is their a lawyer who thinks this could be done? I was hoping an idea like this might encourage people to rethink some the idea of slapping copyright messages on your holiday snaps. Sorry of thats a bit off subject R On 8 February 2013 13:56, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > How can the UK chapter support the project I started: > > < > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensed-format-recordings-voices-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons/ > > > > asking the subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second sample > of their speaking voice, for use on those articles? > > An example script is "Hello, my name is [name]. I was born in [place] > and I have been [job or position] since [year]". > > So far, the participants: > > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voice_intro_project> > > include Alice Arnold, Sue Black, Quentin Cooper, Corrie Corfield, Cory > Doctorow, Jack Schofield, Bill Thompson and Dave Winer; and we've just > had our first recording in French - but we need many more. > > Of course, this isn't limited to article subjects, and it would be a > good idea if board members and chapter staff would consider adding > their voices, so they can be identified in conference calls and > recorded meetings. > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- Roger Bamkin Victuallers Ltd 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2
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