Hi there, If you have size restrictions on commons, use http://www.archive.org/create/ it has no size restrictions. thanks, mike
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:38 AM, <wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted to update everyone about our progress in putting up WikiConference > India 2011 videos on Youtube. I did not intend to post about this until we > had put all the videos online, however the circumstances are such that I > thought its best to keep everyone posted. > > Yesterday when one of our volunteers was working on the videos and tried to > change the licensing of the ones uploaded thus far to CC in the Wikipedia > Spirit, he realised that the Keynote address by Jimmy [1] has a Copyright > Claim by Star News, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp. The video had > been blocked in certain countries and we could not change the licensing to > enable people to reuse freely (and there are ads next to the video). > > This morning I have filed a dispute with Youtube and sent an email to Google > as well mentioning that this is outrageous since it was our event and our > videographer - I fail to understand how this claim is tenable! Will keep you > posted on the response. > > > [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsfmCnyg8Mc > > Kind Regards, > > > PS: Commons was not used due to file size restrictions. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
