According to me these type of issues arise due to the lack of awareness about copyright related topics among press reporters. I assume the reporter made this story based on my blog post published at, <a href="http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/malayalam-loves-wikimedia-event-2011-april-report/">http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/malayalam-loves-wikimedia-event-2011-april-report/</a><br>
<br>In the first paragraph of the blog post I mentioned: <br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">....Malayalam wikimedians have organised a photo event from <strong>2011 April 02 – 25</strong>
<b>to <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">create more awareness about <font size="4">copyleft-licensed</font> images</span></b>, wikimedia
commons, and to attract more Malayalam speaking people to the wikimedia
movement. <br></blockquote><br><br>But when the reporter made the story it became:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<i>the programme ‘Malayalam Loves Wikimedia’ was organised <b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">to create
awareness about <font size="4">copyright-free images</font></b>, Wikimedia Commons and to attract
more Malayalam speaking users to the Wikimedia movement.</i><br></blockquote><br><br>We couldn't do much here. And for this story, reporters didn't contacted any of us. So it is not wikimedian's fault. <br><br>
Some awareness programs can be planned for press reporters to address this issue.<br><br><br>Shiju<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:09 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tinucherian@gmail.com">tinucherian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The newspaper had not contacted me or possibly any ml Wikipedians directly for this article. <div><br><div>There is a general misconception, among general public or media folks, that the images that are free to use are not copyrighted. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Aniwar, How do you think we can create a general awareness to all ?<br><div><br></div><div>-Tinu Cherian<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Anivar Aravind <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anivar.aravind@gmail.com" target="_blank">anivar.aravind@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:50 AM, CherianTinu Abraham<br>
<<a href="mailto:tinucherian@gmail.com" target="_blank">tinucherian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> The 2,155 copyright-free images uploaded are on diverse topics.<br>
<br>
</div>As i mentioned earlier this copyright-free tag coming up with most of<br>
the reports on wikipedia is frustrating. We need to have a proper<br>
strategy to address it. Most of the images uploaded in Malayalam<br>
Loves wikipedia event are not copyright free<br>
<br>
<br>
Anivar<br>
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