I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos) under
open licenses since since Feb 2020.
I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their
collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc.
They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not seemed too
keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-(
James
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Some of us sent an email when it was (only
apparently) less serious but
we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of Washington DC
and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their central
office quickly in Geneva if necessary.
Changing some licenses was one of the things I hoped to discuss, but in
general we knew it was already serious and we were trying to gain some time.
In the end, WHO changed their attitude only after the last week-end,
probably because people started finally to be worried in the USA, but the
pandemia should have been declared weeks ago or at least last week, IMHO,
when also the data of another "not small" country, that is Spain, started
to be quite out of control (if Italy was already not enough after China,
Iran and South Korea).
They seem to have taken more slowly than necessary. Let's hope they
finally reach out.
Regards.
Alessandro
Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 16:29:34 CET, Andy Mabbett <
andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> ha scritto:
WHO have a great video on COVID-19 ("Coronavius"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1APwq1df6Mw
Now would be a good time for the WMF, local chapters, other
affiliates, and individual, to publicly call on them to open licence
such material, as I have done, here:
https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1238124060145483777
[much of their published material is under NC restrictions -
https://www.who.int/publishing/copyright/en/ ]
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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