Wonderful news! On 11/23/11 5:23 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > Dear Cultural-patners-l and Commons-l, > As some of you know I'm currently in Qatar at the invitation of > CreativeCommons Qatar talking to various GLAMs. We met with the good > folks from Al Jazeera English the other day and discussed various ways > that we could work together in the future - based on the great early > work of the Al Jazeera CC portal: http://cc.aljazeera.net/ (copied in to > this email is Bilal from Al Jazeera and Brian from CC.Qatar). One of the > specific questions that they asked me was about why does Wikipedia use > screenshots from those videos rather that using their still images from > flickr directly. The reason is, as we know, was that the Al Jazeera > photostream on Flickr was licensed as cc-by-ND. > > So... It is now my pleasure to pass on a message from Bilal: > > Hi Liam - I've updated our Flickr account and all images are now > available under the CC share-alike option. > > > EXCELLENT! :-) Everyone, have a look at some of the gorgeous photos > available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/sets/ they > cover topics from Hajj to the Gaza War, and many different countries > involved in the "Arab Spring". Not only are these beautiful pictures > with great provenance they are also extremely encyclopedic and > impossible to replace. They are all taken by Al Jazeera journalists in > the field. Furthermore, this is an amazingly fast turnaround time for > changing a large institution's copyright policy :-) > > Let's start getting these across to Wikimedia Commons in the Category > "files from Al Jazeera" > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Al_Jazeera and > start integrating them into various WP articles! > > Is there someone who can dedicate a bot to sucking these across to > Flickr straight away? > Perhaps we can also create a nice "partnership template" too? > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnership_templates > > Sincerely, > -Liam > > wittylama.com/blog <http://wittylama.com/blog> > Peace, love & metadata > > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
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