On 29 January 2011 11:41, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This seems
like a good place to mention that the precedent was set by the Beta
news agency (
http://www.beta.rs/ ) which gave permission for its news to be
uploaded to Wikinews as CC-BY.
I was completely unaware of this!
I think we need a list of such examples. A WMF blog post may be appropriate.
Agência Brasil (Radiobras), the Brazilian government news agency,
releases its material as CC-BY. Using the highly unscientific method
of sampling the changes to the Commons template, it looks like they've
been doing this since mid-2006:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Ag%C3%AAncia_Brasil…
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