Dear all,
I hope you'll forgive me for contacting you yet again in such a short span of time - yet another exciting copyright-related opportunity to share!
An ally of ours, EFF, is organizing Copyright Week from Jan 22 - Jan 26 (see email below). They have asked if there are any blogs that might fit with the themes of this year. These will be shared on social media etc and get a nice boost in coverage. The themes are:
- Public Domain (@Paolo Casagrande paolo.casagrande@wikimedia.it) - AI & Copyright ( @Silvia Gutiérrez silviaegt@wikimedia.org & @Giovanna Fontenelle gfontenelle@wikimedia.org) - Device & Digital Ownership - Free Expression and Fair Use (@Mehman Ibragimov mehman@wikimedia.ge, @Justice Okai-Allotey owulakpakpo@gmail.com, @Douglas Scott Douglas.I.Scott@gmail.com) - Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of Censorship
*Do you have any blogs or published materials that you'd like me to share with the organizers? *Please let me know by Wednesday, January 17.
Thank you and have a lovely weekend,
Ziski
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Katharine Trendacosta via Copyright-week copyright-week@eff.org Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:18 AM Subject: [Copyright-week] Copyright Week 2024 To: public-interest-copyright@publicknowledge.org < public-interest-copyright@publicknowledge.org>, Recreate Coalition < core-copyright-reform-coalition@googlegroups.com>, copyright-week@eff.org < copyright-week@eff.org>
Hello! We are once again heading up Copyright Week. As usual, feel free to send me any blogs you have that might fit any of the (very broad) topics and we will social them around.
This year, Copyright Week will run from the 22nd to the 26th of January, with each day having a theme. Don’t worry about when your blogs are published, we will just be sharing them on those days.
Jan. 22: Public Domain The public domain is our cultural commons and a crucial resource for innovation and access to knowledge. Copyright should strive to promote, and not diminish, a robust, accessible public domain.
Jan 23: Device and Digital Ownership As the things we buy increasingly exist either in digital form or as devices with software, we also find ourselves subject to onerous licensing agreements and technological restrictions. If you buy something, you should be able to truly own it – meaning you can learn how it works, repair it, remove unwanted features, or tinker with it to make it work in a new way.
Jan 24: Copyright and AI The growing availability of AI, especially generative AI trained on datasetts that include copyrightable material, has raised new debates about copyright law. It’s important to remember the limitations of copyright law in giving the kind of protections creators are looking for.
Jan 25: Free Expression and Fair Use Copyright policy should encourage creativity, not hamper it. Fair use makes it possible for us to comment, criticize, and rework our common culture.
Jan 26: Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of Censorship Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right essential to a functioning democracy. Copyright should encourage more speech, not act as a legal cudgel to silence it.
Best,
Katharine
Hi Ziski,
I could actually have some material for you!
In English:
* Video of the conference "Unlocking Value from Digital Heritage Collections" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-cqUVYKV9k&t=92s, a workshop we supported in Turin in October 2023. The topic was the reuse of images in the public domain. The presentations of the speakers are on Commons o Simon Tanner, University College London https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unlocking_value_from_digital_heritag...
o Trilce Navarrete, Erasmus University di Rotterdam https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Value_of_(free)_Digital_Heritage... o Matthias Sahli, WIPO e University di Neuchatel (Svizzera) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digitization_and_Availability_of_Art... * We also have a couple of videos on some important partnerships we developed over the last years, subtitled in Italian o *Egyptian Museum* (we helped them publishing all they digitized collection on Commons): Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIYgwXB6E5I&t=5s (english subtitles available) blob post https://www.wikimedia.it/news/museo-egizio-online-tutte-le-immagini-dei-reperti-esposti/ (in Italian) o *Touring Club Italiano *(digitization of maps and picture from their archive, never published before) Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnzzBLhe04; blog post https://www.wikimedia.it/news/litalia-della-cura-touring-club-italiano-e-i-progetti-wikimedia/ o *University of Padua* (they hosted two wikimedians in residence, first University in Italy) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iogXgpyv0Ak * Diff blog post Open access to heritage images is becoming increasingly difficult in Italy https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/05/open-access-to-heritage-images-is-becoming-increasingly-difficult-in-italy/
In Italian:
* How to donate to the Public Domain https://www.wikimedia.it/news/come-donare-al-pubblico-dominio/ * Open Access: the discussion in Italy is still going on https://www.wikimedia.it/news/open-access-la-discussione-in-italia-e-ancora-... * Mickey Mouse (who in Italian is Topolino) in the Public Domain https://www.wikimedia.it/news/topolino-diventa-di-pubblico-dominio-o-quasi/
We also signed an open letter from Free Software Foundation Europe, on “The right to install any software on any device". Here https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231115-01.it.html some updates in English.
I hope you will find something interesting.
Ciao,
Paolo
Il 12/01/2024 23:04, Franziska Putz ha scritto:
Dear all,
I hope you'll forgive me for contacting you yet again in such a short span of time - yet another exciting copyright-related opportunity to share!
An ally of ours, EFF, is organizing Copyright Week from Jan 22 - Jan 26 (see email below). They have asked if there are any blogs that might fit with the themes of this year. These will be shared on social media etc and get a nice boost in coverage. The themes are:
- Public Domain (@Paolo Casagrande mailto:paolo.casagrande@wikimedia.it)
- AI & Copyright ( @Silvia Gutiérrez mailto:silviaegt@wikimedia.org & @Giovanna Fontenelle mailto:gfontenelle@wikimedia.org)
- Device & Digital Ownership
- Free Expression and Fair Use (@Mehman Ibragimov mailto:mehman@wikimedia.ge, @Justice Okai-Allotey mailto:owulakpakpo@gmail.com, @Douglas Scott mailto:Douglas.I.Scott@gmail.com)
- Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of Censorship
*Do you have any blogs or published materials that you'd like me to share with the organizers? *Please let me know by Wednesday, January 17.
Thank you and have a lovely weekend,
Ziski
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: *Katharine Trendacosta via Copyright-week* copyright-week@eff.org Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:18 AM Subject: [Copyright-week] Copyright Week 2024 To: public-interest-copyright@publicknowledge.org public-interest-copyright@publicknowledge.org, Recreate Coalition core-copyright-reform-coalition@googlegroups.com, copyright-week@eff.org copyright-week@eff.org
Hello! We are once again heading up Copyright Week. As usual, feel free to send me any blogs you have that might fit any of the (very broad) topics and we will social them around.
This year, Copyright Week will run from the 22^nd to the 26^th of January, with each day having a theme. Don’t worry about when your blogs are published, we will just be sharing them on those days.
Jan. 22: Public Domain The public domain is our cultural commons and a crucial resource for innovation and access to knowledge. Copyright should strive to promote, and not diminish, a robust, accessible public domain.
Jan 23: Device and Digital Ownership As the things we buy increasingly exist either in digital form or as devices with software, we also find ourselves subject to onerous licensing agreements and technological restrictions. If you buy something, you should be able to truly own it – meaning you can learn how it works, repair it, remove unwanted features, or tinker with it to make it work in a new way.
Jan 24: Copyright and AI The growing availability of AI, especially generative AI trained on datasetts that include copyrightable material, has raised new debates about copyright law. It’s important to remember the limitations of copyright law in giving the kind of protections creators are looking for.
Jan 25: Free Expression and Fair Use Copyright policy should encourage creativity, not hamper it. Fair use makes it possible for us to comment, criticize, and rework our common culture.**
Jan 26: Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of Censorship Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right essential to a functioning democracy. Copyright should encourage more speech, not act as a legal cudgel to silence it.
Best,
Katharine
--
Katharine M. Trendacosta (she/her)
Director of Policy and Advocacy Electronic Frontier Foundation
katharine@eff.org mailto:katharine@eff.org @k_trendacosta (415) 436-9333 x190
/My working hours may not be yours, I do not expect a response outside of your working hours/
Stand up for your digital rights
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Wonderful! I've passed these resources along to Katharine from EFF.
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 8:56 AM Paolo Casagrande < paolo.casagrande@wikimedia.it> wrote:
Hi Ziski,
I could actually have some material for you!
In English:
- Video of the conference "Unlocking Value from Digital Heritage
Collections" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-cqUVYKV9k&t=92s, a workshop we supported in Turin in October 2023. The topic was the reuse of images in the public domain. The presentations of the speakers are on Commons - Simon Tanner, University College London https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unlocking_value_from_digital_heritag... - Trilce Navarrete, Erasmus University di Rotterdam https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Value_of_(free)_Digital_Heritage... - Matthias Sahli, WIPO e University di Neuchatel (Svizzera) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digitization_and_Availability_of_Art...
- We also have a couple of videos on some important partnerships we
developed over the last years, subtitled in Italian - *Egyptian Museum* (we helped them publishing all they digitized collection on Commons): Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIYgwXB6E5I&t=5s (english subtitles available) blob post https://www.wikimedia.it/news/museo-egizio-online-tutte-le-immagini-dei-reperti-esposti/ (in Italian) - *Touring Club Italiano *(digitization of maps and picture from their archive, never published before) Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnzzBLhe04; blog post https://www.wikimedia.it/news/litalia-della-cura-touring-club-italiano-e-i-progetti-wikimedia/ - *University of Padua* (they hosted two wikimedians in residence, first University in Italy) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iogXgpyv0Ak
- Diff blog post Open access to heritage images is becoming
increasingly difficult in Italy https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/05/open-access-to-heritage-images-is-becoming-increasingly-difficult-in-italy/
In Italian:
- How to donate to the Public Domain
https://www.wikimedia.it/news/come-donare-al-pubblico-dominio/
- Open Access: the discussion in Italy is still going on
https://www.wikimedia.it/news/open-access-la-discussione-in-italia-e-ancora-...
- Mickey Mouse (who in Italian is Topolino) in the Public Domain
https://www.wikimedia.it/news/topolino-diventa-di-pubblico-dominio-o-quasi/
We also signed an open letter from Free Software Foundation Europe, on “The right to install any software on any device". Here https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231115-01.it.html some updates in English.
I hope you will find something interesting.
Ciao,
Paolo
Il 12/01/2024 23:04, Franziska Putz ha scritto:
Dear all,
I hope you'll forgive me for contacting you yet again in such a short span of time - yet another exciting copyright-related opportunity to share!
An ally of ours, EFF, is organizing Copyright Week from Jan 22 - Jan 26 (see email below). They have asked if there are any blogs that might fit with the themes of this year. These will be shared on social media etc and get a nice boost in coverage. The themes are:
- Public Domain (@Paolo Casagrande paolo.casagrande@wikimedia.it)
- AI & Copyright ( @Silvia Gutiérrez silviaegt@wikimedia.org & @Giovanna
Fontenelle gfontenelle@wikimedia.org)
- Device & Digital Ownership
- Free Expression and Fair Use (@Mehman Ibragimov mehman@wikimedia.ge
, @Justice Okai-Allotey owulakpakpo@gmail.com, @Douglas Scott Douglas.I.Scott@gmail.com)
- Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of Censorship
*Do you have any blogs or published materials that you'd like me to share with the organizers? *Please let me know by Wednesday, January 17.
Thank you and have a lovely weekend,
Ziski
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Katharine Trendacosta via Copyright-week copyright-week@eff.org Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:18 AM Subject: [Copyright-week] Copyright Week 2024 To: public-interest-copyright@publicknowledge.org < public-interest-copyright@publicknowledge.org>, Recreate Coalition < core-copyright-reform-coalition@googlegroups.com>, copyright-week@eff.org copyright-week@eff.org
Hello! We are once again heading up Copyright Week. As usual, feel free to send me any blogs you have that might fit any of the (very broad) topics and we will social them around.
This year, Copyright Week will run from the 22nd to the 26th of January, with each day having a theme. Don’t worry about when your blogs are published, we will just be sharing them on those days.
Jan. 22: Public Domain The public domain is our cultural commons and a crucial resource for innovation and access to knowledge. Copyright should strive to promote, and not diminish, a robust, accessible public domain.
Jan 23: Device and Digital Ownership As the things we buy increasingly exist either in digital form or as devices with software, we also find ourselves subject to onerous licensing agreements and technological restrictions. If you buy something, you should be able to truly own it – meaning you can learn how it works, repair it, remove unwanted features, or tinker with it to make it work in a new way.
Jan 24: Copyright and AI The growing availability of AI, especially generative AI trained on datasetts that include copyrightable material, has raised new debates about copyright law. It’s important to remember the limitations of copyright law in giving the kind of protections creators are looking for.
Jan 25: Free Expression and Fair Use Copyright policy should encourage creativity, not hamper it. Fair use makes it possible for us to comment, criticize, and rework our common culture.
Jan 26: Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of Censorship Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right essential to a functioning democracy. Copyright should encourage more speech, not act as a legal cudgel to silence it.
Best,
Katharine
--
Katharine M. Trendacosta (she/her)
Director of Policy and Advocacy Electronic Frontier Foundation
katharine@eff.org @k_trendacosta (415) 436-9333 x190
*My working hours may not be yours, I do not expect a response outside of your working hours*
Stand up for your digital rights
Act.eff.org
Copyright-week mailing list Copyright-week@eff.org https://mail.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/copyright-week
-- Paolo Casagrande Comunicazione / Communications Wikimedia Italia
Dai alla conoscenza libera un nuovo nome. Il tuo, con il tuo 5x1000. CF: 94039910156 www.wikimedia.it
About AI :)
- *Fantastic Futures 2023 – AI4LAM in Vancouver,* https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2023/11/fantastic-futures-2023-ai4lam-in-vancouver/ this blog post by Mia Ridges talks about this international conference focused on advancing artificial intelligence in, for, and by libraries, archives, and museums. It includes a link to our "Co-Creating an AI Responsive Information Literacy Curriculum https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gb9j4NTUmZL-aVoOYSMTaUyy-7NVN8jC0IjOw7AKpb4/edit" workshop materials. - Wikimedia and Libraries User Group's AI Salons. Informal conversations about libraries, AI, and Wikimedia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mphVbFvdZKU&list=PLq87p-54ycO3d-lfLfyXq0QVvnWEhEPcV - Slide decks of different AI-related talks we've given: A.I., GLAM, and Wikimedia https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cCakWfeNjV2C6YO18FHXLhRQda5chonpZlwymGvite4/edit?usp=sharing | AI in depth, Collective construction of an AI curriculum for GLAMS https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_TyUO1sRVmLVUg-sJxmDZyfNWoq_pJpOa1g4R39SfmY/edit#slide=id.p1
And my all-time fav, Selena Deckelmann's piece Wikipedia’s value in the age of generative AI https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikipedias-value-in-the-age-of-generative-ai-b19fec06bbee
Hope that's useful :)
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 1:41 PM Franziska Putz fputz@wikimedia.org wrote:
Wonderful! I've passed these resources along to Katharine from EFF.
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 8:56 AM Paolo Casagrande < paolo.casagrande@wikimedia.it> wrote:
Hi Ziski,
I could actually have some material for you!
In English:
- Video of the conference "Unlocking Value from Digital Heritage
Collections" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-cqUVYKV9k&t=92s, a workshop we supported in Turin in October 2023. The topic was the reuse of images in the public domain. The presentations of the speakers are on Commons - Simon Tanner, University College London https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unlocking_value_from_digital_heritag... - Trilce Navarrete, Erasmus University di Rotterdam https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Value_of_(free)_Digital_Heritage... - Matthias Sahli, WIPO e University di Neuchatel (Svizzera) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digitization_and_Availability_of_Art...
- We also have a couple of videos on some important partnerships we
developed over the last years, subtitled in Italian - *Egyptian Museum* (we helped them publishing all they digitized collection on Commons): Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIYgwXB6E5I&t=5s (english subtitles available) blob post https://www.wikimedia.it/news/museo-egizio-online-tutte-le-immagini-dei-reperti-esposti/ (in Italian) - *Touring Club Italiano *(digitization of maps and picture from their archive, never published before) Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnzzBLhe04; blog post https://www.wikimedia.it/news/litalia-della-cura-touring-club-italiano-e-i-progetti-wikimedia/ - *University of Padua* (they hosted two wikimedians in residence, first University in Italy) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iogXgpyv0Ak
- Diff blog post Open access to heritage images is becoming
increasingly difficult in Italy https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/05/open-access-to-heritage-images-is-becoming-increasingly-difficult-in-italy/
In Italian:
- How to donate to the Public Domain
https://www.wikimedia.it/news/come-donare-al-pubblico-dominio/
- Open Access: the discussion in Italy is still going on
https://www.wikimedia.it/news/open-access-la-discussione-in-italia-e-ancora-...
- Mickey Mouse (who in Italian is Topolino) in the Public Domain
https://www.wikimedia.it/news/topolino-diventa-di-pubblico-dominio-o-quasi/
We also signed an open letter from Free Software Foundation Europe, on “The right to install any software on any device". Here https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231115-01.it.html some updates in English.
I hope you will find something interesting.
Ciao,
Paolo
Il 12/01/2024 23:04, Franziska Putz ha scritto:
Dear all,
I hope you'll forgive me for contacting you yet again in such a short span of time - yet another exciting copyright-related opportunity to share!
An ally of ours, EFF, is organizing Copyright Week from Jan 22 - Jan 26 (see email below). They have asked if there are any blogs that might fit with the themes of this year. These will be shared on social media etc and get a nice boost in coverage. The themes are:
- Public Domain (@Paolo Casagrande paolo.casagrande@wikimedia.it)
- AI & Copyright ( @Silvia Gutiérrez silviaegt@wikimedia.org & @Giovanna
Fontenelle gfontenelle@wikimedia.org)
- Device & Digital Ownership
- Free Expression and Fair Use (@Mehman Ibragimov
mehman@wikimedia.ge, @Justice Okai-Allotey owulakpakpo@gmail.com, @Douglas Scott Douglas.I.Scott@gmail.com)
- Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of Censorship
*Do you have any blogs or published materials that you'd like me to share with the organizers? *Please let me know by Wednesday, January 17.
Thank you and have a lovely weekend,
Ziski
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Katharine Trendacosta via Copyright-week copyright-week@eff.org Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:18 AM Subject: [Copyright-week] Copyright Week 2024 To: public-interest-copyright@publicknowledge.org < public-interest-copyright@publicknowledge.org>, Recreate Coalition < core-copyright-reform-coalition@googlegroups.com>, copyright-week@eff.org copyright-week@eff.org
Hello! We are once again heading up Copyright Week. As usual, feel free to send me any blogs you have that might fit any of the (very broad) topics and we will social them around.
This year, Copyright Week will run from the 22nd to the 26th of January, with each day having a theme. Don’t worry about when your blogs are published, we will just be sharing them on those days.
Jan. 22: Public Domain The public domain is our cultural commons and a crucial resource for innovation and access to knowledge. Copyright should strive to promote, and not diminish, a robust, accessible public domain.
Jan 23: Device and Digital Ownership As the things we buy increasingly exist either in digital form or as devices with software, we also find ourselves subject to onerous licensing agreements and technological restrictions. If you buy something, you should be able to truly own it – meaning you can learn how it works, repair it, remove unwanted features, or tinker with it to make it work in a new way.
Jan 24: Copyright and AI The growing availability of AI, especially generative AI trained on datasetts that include copyrightable material, has raised new debates about copyright law. It’s important to remember the limitations of copyright law in giving the kind of protections creators are looking for.
Jan 25: Free Expression and Fair Use Copyright policy should encourage creativity, not hamper it. Fair use makes it possible for us to comment, criticize, and rework our common culture.
Jan 26: Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of Censorship Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right essential to a functioning democracy. Copyright should encourage more speech, not act as a legal cudgel to silence it.
Best,
Katharine
--
Katharine M. Trendacosta (she/her)
Director of Policy and Advocacy Electronic Frontier Foundation
katharine@eff.org @k_trendacosta (415) 436-9333 x190
*My working hours may not be yours, I do not expect a response outside of your working hours*
Stand up for your digital rights
Act.eff.org
Copyright-week mailing list Copyright-week@eff.org https://mail.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/copyright-week
-- Paolo Casagrande Comunicazione / Communications Wikimedia Italia
Dai alla conoscenza libera un nuovo nome. Il tuo, con il tuo 5x1000. CF: 94039910156 www.wikimedia.it
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