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 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 think there is an issue of lack of quality documentation so much > as reading that documentation is not a literal barrier to contributing. > And possibly as you outline more people reaching out to inform. > > --michael > > Jovan Cormac wrote: > > 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 entails those volunteers systematically searching the internet and > media archives such as Flickr for PD and CC material wrongly labelled as > being "copyright, all rights reserved" and the likes, and notifying the > person who wrongly used the label about the problem (using whatever means > are provided by the site), along with a link to a small wiki designed > exclusively to educate about PD and CC. > > > > The goal is *not* to threaten those people in any way, and messages sent > will never contain any threats, whether legal, moral or personal. Rather, > the project aims to educate the many, many internet users who don't worry > about rights at all, because they truly don't know jack about them. They > might know copyright, but overestimate its reach and/or not be aware that > there are alternatives. When being told about the wide world of rights and > how copyright alternatives like Creative Commons can promote access to free > knowledge they might consider re-licensing most or all of their works. > > > > In essence, what's being proposed is a Wiki that acts as a complement to > the Open-source Ticket Request System on Commons. Instead of receiving > license information about media on Commons, the idea is to send out license > information about media on the internet to those whom it concerns. > > > > Since this would obviously promote both the free access to knowledge and > people's awareness of key open content concepts like PD and CC, the proposal > is in line with the very heart of Wikimedia's goals. > > > > > > Your opinions & input are more than welcome at the project's discussion > page, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CommonsForce. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Jovan Cormac > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l