[Commons-l] Al Jazeera in Flickr goes cc-by-sa

[Neil Kandalgaonkar]

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
>
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> Peace, love & metadata
>
>
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Neil Kandalgaonkar (   <neilk at wikimedia.org>