Dear all,
>From tidying up around the edges on en.wiktionary I noticed that our
content disclaimer is an old clone of en.wikipedia's with some links
to the specific disclaimers there. Bringing this up on
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metapub#Disclaimers> I was advised to
invite responses by emailing this list.
Would it make sense to have some site-neutral central disclaimers that
can be used by any wiki that does not yet have its own? How much legal
stuff needs to be in the disclaimers, is it the kind of thing that,
like the Privacy policy, needs to be reasonably correct - or is it
safe to have many thrown together ones?
I apologise if this email is out of turn, please point me in the right
direction.
Yours
Conrad Irwin
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User_talk:Conrad.Irwin>
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Date: 2008-2-18 13:22
Subject: 欢迎大家参加2月25日到3月7日的wikieducator的免费学习课程（请代为转发给你的朋友）
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Hi friends --
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Local Wikimedians in the New York City area have been organizing more
recently, and we've tried to reach out to other local pro-free culture
groups.
We've already approached the Students For Free Culture chapter at
Columbia University, who have expressed some interest in co-hosting a
"content jam" or maybe a "Wikipedia Academy" with us, a mass event for
writing and improving Wikipedia articles.
One possibility for our group is founding/being a member of some sort
of "New York City Free Culture Alliance" of pro-free culture groups in
the city.
Our 'Wikimedia New York City' group is currently applying to the
Chapters Committee and WMF for some sort of official status, which
will probably be less than that accorded to the national chapters; as
we are not a legally-organized entity, and we're run rather more
informally than the various national chapters.
Columbia Free Culture is a student organization at Columbia
University, and a chapter of a national student society. They have
already expressed interest in this type of cooperation. I plan to
approach their chapter at New York University soon too.
I raised this with Chapcom through Andrew, and so far they seem supportive.
The Columbia Free Culture people also suggested that, in addition to
groups, we approach prominent academics etc. in the city who are
supportive of free culture.
Also, I would like to join a group like
http://www.meetupalliance.com/newtechnology mostly to corral member
organizations for our putative "New York City Free Culture Alliance".
I think local technology groups with a social/educational focus might
be interested in working with us, even if they're not explicitly part
of the free culture movement.
I really want to make this pretty broad-brush, and open to a diversity
of groups. I was thinking maybe we could define ourselves by making a
joint signing of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration.
And the name will probably be something broader too- something like
"Open New York Alliance", probably.
I just think this could be a way for us to really speak with a united
voice on local issues, and to coordinate activities in a real-life
sense, because there's a limited amount that can be done online.
Any reactions? ideas? suggestions?
Thanks
Currently all the Wikimedia videos (of various talks, activities, and
conferences) on the Internet Archive are in the catch-all Open Source
Movies collection.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Wikimedia%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovie…
Since we have quite a few of them, I suggest that we apply for a
sub-collection in the Computers & Technology collection. I've read
that the usual requirement is for at least twenty videos, and we have
quite a few more than that.
http://www.archive.org/details/computersandtechvideos
This way our videos would be better organized, and have a higher
profile to the public.
Who should I contact in WMF for official permission to apply for such
a sub-collection?
Thanks
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kelly08/kelly08_index.html
Copies themselves are free. Kelly outlines eight qualities that cannot
be copied, and are therefore still marketable: trust, immediacy,
personalisation, interpretation, authenticity, accessibility,
embodiment, patronage and findability.
This is relevant to what we do - giving away good stuff and
*encouraging* copies - because (1) it gives business models for
reusers of Wikimedia content (2) things we could do to make copies
even better and more useful. Does anyone have useful ideas on these
matters?
I think immediacy and accessibility are the reasons for wikipedia.org
being the world's #9 website. A lack of warrantable reliability is
nothing compared to useful *convenience*.
- d.
The EU currently has two categories of copyright:
* The authors' rights, which elapse 70 years after the authors' death.
With respect to music, these applies to authors and composers.
* Performers' rights, which elapse 50 years after the recording.
Apparently, Charlie McCreevy, EU commissioner, would like to extend the
performers' copyright to 95 years after recording:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/14/business/EU-FIN-EU-Music-Royaltie…
He claims that there are nowadays many musicians who recorded music in
their twenties and now do not earn money anymore from them. I do not see
how this justifies 95 years, for few people live to 115 years...
He also claims this would not make the prices of records rise, because
the prices for records out-of-copyright with respect to performers'
rights are the same as those within copyright.
That may be true, however, his project would be a hindrance for
Wikimedia projects. We currently can hope to find old recordings of
classical music, which have fallen into the public domain. These would
be very hard to find with 95 year terms.
Let us all oppose this move.
Hello,
After a poll lasting two weeks there is currently an 87% majority consensus
on the creation of an Embargoed wiki. I am presenting the proposal to the
Foundation at this point to request the creation of said wiki.
Our proposal is at [1]. If any further information is required, or this post
is in totally the wrong place, please reply!
~ Paul Williams
~ [[n:User:Skenmy]]
[1] http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Proposal_for_Embargoed_wiki
All -
could you send me some links - offlist is fine - to useful tutorials
that you're aware of on free content licensing? I think there are some
pages on Wikimedia Commons that might be useful, if perhaps a bit
project-centric.
It would just be good to have some URLs to shoot to folks who have
heard once of Creative Commons and open source - but really don't have
a clue what any of it means, get confused about the
commercial/non-commercial distinction, think they can still cut
exclusive deals for some types of usage, etc. :-)
Thanks,
Erik
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Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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This would indeed be a HUGE problem for Wikimedia projects. I don't know
where our EU commissioner took that strange idea from, but it is totally
nonsense. I don't think there would be many artists benefiting from this
; but for us, this would really be bad news. Finding records whose
author has died at least 95 years ago is very, very difficult. But I
guess we're not the only ones who would face this problem : probably
other free culture projects, but also internet sites, etc. could help us
oppose this.
This seems to me to be part of a larger problem. As with the US willing
to abolish rule of the shorter term, governments seem to be
strengthening their copyright rules, making projects such as Wikimedia's
face important problems. In a time when many people are uploading
illegally their music from the internet, this seems to me to be total
nonsense : it will become even more difficult to upload free music,
which means that people will illegally upload music, even more than now,
from artists who want to have their music protected. Instead of
uploading free PD early-20th-century music, people will be uploading
copyrighted music ; but if it's copyrighted, then why not take recent
music, 2008 music ? I don't think that's what EU wants, but that what
it's gonna get. So I don't see the point in this.
Yrs
fr:User:Benjism89