Hi,
I wanted to update everyone about our progress in putting up WikiConference India 2011 videos on Youtube. I did not intend to post about this until we had put all the videos online, however the circumstances are such that I thought its best to keep everyone posted.
Yesterday when one of our volunteers was working on the videos and tried to change the licensing of the ones uploaded thus far to CC in the Wikipedia Spirit, he realised that the Keynote address by Jimmy [1] has a Copyright Claim by Star News, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp. The video had been blocked in certain countries and we could not change the licensing to enable people to reuse freely (and there are ads next to the video).
This morning I have filed a dispute with Youtube and sent an email to Google as well mentioning that this is outrageous since it was our event and our videographer - I fail to understand how this claim is tenable! Will keep you posted on the response.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsfmCnyg8Mc
Kind Regards,
PS: Commons was not used due to file size restrictions.
Oops - correct link to video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vXLkrymlUs&
From: wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:38:34 +0000 Subject: [Foundation-l] Murdoch Company Claims Copyright on Wikipedia Video
Hi,
I wanted to update everyone about our progress in putting up WikiConference India 2011 videos on Youtube. I did not intend to post about this until we had put all the videos online, however the circumstances are such that I thought its best to keep everyone posted.
Yesterday when one of our volunteers was working on the videos and tried to change the licensing of the ones uploaded thus far to CC in the Wikipedia Spirit, he realised that the Keynote address by Jimmy [1] has a Copyright Claim by Star News, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp. The video had been blocked in certain countries and we could not change the licensing to enable people to reuse freely (and there are ads next to the video).
This morning I have filed a dispute with Youtube and sent an email to Google as well mentioning that this is outrageous since it was our event and our videographer - I fail to understand how this claim is tenable! Will keep you posted on the response.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsfmCnyg8Mc
Kind Regards,
PS: Commons was not used due to file size restrictions. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:38 PM, wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com wrote:
PS: Commons was not used due to file size restrictions.
If you get the files to the foundation staff in some method (USB Drive/DVD/Hosted on a server somewhere they can download them) they can get them uploaded to commons without worrying about the upload size.
Hi there, If you have size restrictions on commons, use http://www.archive.org/create/ it has no size restrictions. thanks, mike
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:38 AM, wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to update everyone about our progress in putting up WikiConference India 2011 videos on Youtube. I did not intend to post about this until we had put all the videos online, however the circumstances are such that I thought its best to keep everyone posted.
Yesterday when one of our volunteers was working on the videos and tried to change the licensing of the ones uploaded thus far to CC in the Wikipedia Spirit, he realised that the Keynote address by Jimmy [1] has a Copyright Claim by Star News, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp. The video had been blocked in certain countries and we could not change the licensing to enable people to reuse freely (and there are ads next to the video).
This morning I have filed a dispute with Youtube and sent an email to Google as well mentioning that this is outrageous since it was our event and our videographer - I fail to understand how this claim is tenable! Will keep you posted on the response.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsfmCnyg8Mc
Kind Regards,
PS: Commons was not used due to file size restrictions.
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