Thanks for informing Arjuna garu.
AFAIK we could go ahead and use these images as per the fair use clause if Indian Copyright Act, especially for the purpose of education. We could even print a disclaimer on the CD.
It will be useful to write to Malayalam Wikimedia Community members also to check how they have resolved this issue.
It will be a good initiative if we could replace as many such images as possible with free licensed ones. Would be nice if we could try to take it up as a community project for the next 45 days. I will do my two cents of contribution for this.
Best,
Vishnu
Sent from a handheld device. Excuse my brevity.
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From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Date: 17/10/2013 9:52 AM (GMT+05:30)
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Use of Fair use messages from Wikipedia in a CD for distribution in India
Correcting the email for telugu wiki lists.
2013/10/17 Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Forward the message sent to Wikimedia India-l for potential responses.
Cheers
Arjuna
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Date: 2013/10/17
Subject: Re: Use of Fair use messages from Wikipedia in a CD for distribution in India
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Hi,
The link to the non free images on Telugu Wikipedia , that I missed in my previous mail.
Cheers
Arjuna
2013/10/17 Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Hi,
As some of you have noticed, several Indian languages have celebrated/are celebrating tenth anniversary. Telugu language community is contemplating release of Telugu wikipedia content on a CD with appropriate modifications for School children use. The CD is proposed to be distributed to all schools in Andhra Pradesh.
Out of 9053 (approximate) images, 2071 (30%) are non free images(mostly book cover, cinema posters, logos etc) . We are looking for advice on the following
A) Whether we can include all the non free content on CD?
B) Whether WMF/WMIN will approve the use of Wikipedia Logo on the cover?
C) Any other precaution/disclaimers that need to be included on CD to prevent any legal dispute in future.
As Malayalam community has produced a CD in the past and there have been attempts to produce an English School Wikipedia CD for India, I would like to hear from people with experience and expertise on these matters
Cheers
Arjuna Rao Chavala
Telugu Wikipedian