Teofilo,
Some of my comments below - sorry for the delay.
On Mar 5, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Teofilo wrote:
Just a few remarks about the 2015 strategic plan pdf
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*http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode 4(a) "You
must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for,
this License with every copy of the Work You Distribute or Publicly
Perform" is infringed
This is a good point that wasn't worked into the currently designed version. Does
this mean that any instance of the free license descriptor "CC-BY-SA" including
a description of the creative commons license requires a permalink to the page detailing
the license?
*The sunflower picture on the last page is what people colloquially
call a "stolen" picture. The attribution right of Uwe H. Friese
Bremerhaven 2005 (User:Vulcan) is infringed (2)
If that's the case, and if Commons users address this infringement then we could
certainly adjust the image credit in the viewing PDF for the correct one. For now I
haven't seen that take place.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunflower_Bl%C3%BCte.JPG
*I could not find out where the other sunflower picture on the front
cover page is taken from.
The image in 'acknowledgements' is credit to Pascalou Petit.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tournesol1.jpg
In future design products we also intend to make the user name credits linkable to the
image in Commons.
*The photographer/cameraman , original author of the portraits page 3
is not attributed, which in turn prevents users from reusing the
pictures.
That's a good point. These are all freely reusable images:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_video_project_July_2010
But we missed inclusion of the 'photographer/creator' name. I'm going to work
that into minor edits for a new version.
*When distributing portraits of living people with a free license, a
good practice is to include a warning such as
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Personality_rights ; If the
pictures/videos were taken with the understanding between the
cameraman and the models that they are taken for the purpose of
documenting the WMF projects, it should be made clear to future
reusers that we don't have a model release for other purposes.
We actually do have releases for these images, but as you'll see the images also
include personality rights warning.
*The WMF logo on the back cover page is apparently released under CC-BY-SA
*The reader is not reminded that the WMF logo (together with the
series of words "Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Wikispecies") is trademarked
*The pdf does not contain any instruction pertaining to the conditions
under which the WMF logo on the back cover page can be reused :
**Is verbatim copying of the pdf allowed ? I guess yes, but if you
don't write it down, people are not supposed to distribute the pdf
verbatim, freely, because it contains a copyrighted logo. The question
whether people can freely upload and redistribute this pdf on their
own website is not addressed.
I'm also conferring with our legal team to determine wording to include in the
document that will declare that the Wikimedia Foundation mark is trademarked. I'm not
particularly concerned with users mis-interpreting its inclusion in the CCBYSA work as a
free release of the image's trademark, but I appreciate that this needs to be
clarified.
**Is modifying the whole document (including the WMF logo) allowed ?
Or should the creator of a modified version remove the WMF logo ? Even
for a translation ? What are you allowed to do with the other
trademarks ?
Indeed as a cc by sa work the piece can be remixed and modified - however a clarifying
sentence such as 'the wikimedia Foundation mark is trademarked and may only be used
with permission' etc
The above is the sort of things which happen in an organization which
does not put
« foster good licencing and attribution practices »
high enough in its priority list and in its budget (and in its
strategic plan ?) 2015
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/c/c0/WMF_StrategicPlan2011…
found at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summa…
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunflower_Bl%C3%BCte.JPG
Production of paper/printed works introduces some minor complications in the use of CCBYSA
licenses, but none of these are difficult to fix. I appreciate your feedback and points
and we'll try to roll these changes into a new version of the report asap.
thanks
jay
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Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
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