Hi, what about copyrights?
On their home page, they say it's an "open source documentary", however I think they just mean user-created content, not freely-licensed content. Copyrights issues should be resolved before submitting the film footage. Some productions require the exclusive copyright, and that'd mean that we can't even use the film excerpts for our own needs (upload them on Wikimedia Commonts, etc). That being said, I think it'd be great to have a small film crew on location, and it's also a great idea to include footage into BBC's film. -- Church of emacs Tom Holden wrote: > Hi, > > The BBC have been in contact with us at Wikimedia UK about the > possibility of them getting access to some Wikimania footage. I quote: > > "We are expecting to film with Jimmy Wales later in the year, but we > were really hoping to film at Wikimania. Unfortunately, due to > schedules, we simply can't get a crew to the event. And so, it > occurred to us that, rather than lose this quintessentially Wikipedian > moment, we could - in the spirit of our shared open and collaborative > goals - ask some of the attending Wikipedians to shoot some footage > for us, for release on an open platform (Kultura) to allow all parties > to use the footage under creative commons." > > They ask interested parties to get in contact either via their web > form here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalrevolution/contactus.shtml or > via me/other WMUK board members. (E-mail me and I'll forward it on to > them, or alternatively, if you're in the UK email me and I can give > you the organiser's phone number.) > > Thanks, > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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