Many of the individuals who are interfacing with museums, libraries, and
other arvhives know this already. For any who may not, here's something you
can bring to the table along with an offer.
WMF has a growing pool of volunteer editors who will do high quality
restorations of historic photographs, lithographs, etc. as a courtesy for
the institutions who release bulk material to WMF instead of Flickr.
Certain technical and esthetic limitations apply; if any difficulties arise
I would gladly to the restoration personally, in order to facilitate
negotiations.
Bear in mind, for example, the prewar illustration of Dresden, Germany
before:
This restoration was done in thanks to the University of Dresden library for
their generous promise to donate a quarter million images directly to
Wikimedia Commons. Many images of similar quality are already available for
North America, Europe, and the Near East. I would *gladly* perform similar
restorations in support of negotiations to open new sources to WMF.
To editors who are communicting and/or negotiating with such archives,
please contact me at your earliest convenience. I will do all that is
possible to demonstrate the advantages of releasing media content to the WMF
environment. If this means courtesy restorations, they will be prioritized.
Warmest regards,
Durova
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5. Re: NYTimes article: Exploring Fact City (David Gerard)
6. Considerations for museums and archives to gain their
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:34:18 +0300
From: Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Foundation-l] I'm a creative commoner!!!
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Originally I wrote it somewhere on a blog (
http://dammit.lt/2009/03/28/im-a-creative-commoner/
), so this is a bit long copy-paste into an email:
Lately Creative Commons is becoming very dominant topic in my life.
First of all, I see all the people in free culture world holding their
breath and waiting for Wikipedia switch to CC license. I?m waiting for
that too - and personally I really endorse it. Though usually people
do not really notice licenses on web content, they really do once they
see something they really want to reuse. Wikipedia ends up being
isolated island, if it doesn?t go after sharing and exchanging
information with other projects.
It takes time to understand one is ?creative commoner?. I do have a t-
shirt with such caption, but it is much more comfortable once you
start feeling real power of use and reuse of information. Few anecdotes?
Dear Mr. Mituzas,
Thank you for making your photographs available
under a
Creative Commons license. I am writing to inform you that
the American Society of Civil Engineers has featured a
silhouette of ?Up we go? on the cover of its new book,
?Constructability Concepts and Practice.?
https://www.asce.org/bookstore/book.cfm?book=7742
Per the terms of the license, the following
credit appears
on page ii of the book: ?Front cover photograph by Domas
Mituzas used under a Creative Commons license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.?
I will be happy to send a copy of the book to you
if you
will provide me your mailing address.
I got this email back in summer, 2007. Did I just steal a job from
professional photographer? Or would they just leave blank book cover?
Will this lead to a better bridge in future? Did I join a civil cause?
All I know now, is that I?m book cover photographer, albeit quite
cheap one. Also, by using CC license I simply used lingua-franca of
world I?m in - and now my content can evolve into shapes that I
couldn?t expect, and that would be limited by non-portable licenses.
Other anecdote is way more internal. I have cheap point-and-shoot
camera (same one to shoot book cover pictures :) that I use during my
travels. It fits well into my jeans pocket, it doesn?t provide me any
self esteem in professional photography. Still, I get to places, I
take pictures, I place them on my flickr photostream, and I license
them under creative commons. And fascinating things happen - my
pictures appear on top of Wikipedia articles (like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings_in_the_world
), without any intervention of mine. People just use it, I can sit
back, relax, and see how the contribution widens.
Of course, there other different stories. My colleague (and manager)
runs a wiki about his own town, Bielepedia, and he wants to exchange
information with Wikipedia. Now he can?t, as well as quite a lot of
other free content community projects. Though of course, some may
believe license difference doesn?t mean much, in this case it means
that we?re building borders we don?t need nor we have intent to
maintain.
I live and breathe Wikipedia technology, but I do not feel competent
enough to go and push content itself around, and it just shows up
there itself (oh, of course, there?s army of committed volunteers who
help with that). So, I benefit the project just by being creative
commoner, and I may benefit lots of other projects. We at Wikipedia
technical team are very open in what we do, and try to spread our know-
how in many directions. Documents I wrote about how we do things ended
up downloaded hundred thousand times, and I really hope that some of
that know-how will end up used and reused.
I guess I?m taking this to extremes - I ended up talking to people in
government of Lithuania, journalists and non-profit activists. Imagine
a government, that would commit to open licensing for produced
content. Well, no need to imagine - US federal institutions release
information to public domain, but in Europe it is way more restricted.
Still, what one has to realize - at government level it is not only a
right to be given, it also has to be a right that has to be protected.
Nowadays that means going to copyright powerhouses that serve large
record labels and movie studios, and will charge for services, that
government has to provide for free (and does in other areas, like
looking for your stolen car).
We have lots and lots of talks about knowledge-societies at government
levels, but we never get to the point, that every individual is part
of that, and first of all we have to teach those rights, and guard
them. But of course, to prove, that our rights have to be guarded, we
have to show how great our work is - and how powerful can our sharing
be. To achieve that we have to build bridges between license islands,
talk same languages, and of course, create.
I?m a creative commoner. So should be you.
P.S. So should be Wikimedia Foundation. I?m extremely excited about
the work being done to make it reality (thanks Erik, Mike, Mako,
everyone!), and you know my personal position on the matter by now :)
Cheers,
--
Domas Mituzas --
http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]]
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:02:12 -0400
From: KillerChihuahua <puppy(a)KillerChihuahua.com>
Subject: [Foundation-l] NYTimes article: Exploring Fact City
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This is a lovely article, by a reporter who actually doesn't seem to be
on a smear campaign or completely misunderstand how Wikipedia works -
altho its unclear how much of that is due to reading "The Wikipedia
Revolution".
Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/weekinreview/29cohen.html?ref=technology
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:04:22 +0000
From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NYTimes article: Exploring Fact City
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2009/3/29 KillerChihuahua <puppy(a)killerchihuahua.com>om>:
This is a lovely article, by a reporter who
actually doesn't seem to be
on a smear campaign or completely misunderstand how Wikipedia works -
altho its unclear how much of that is due to reading "The Wikipedia
Revolution".
Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/weekinreview/29cohen.html?ref=technology
Noam Cohen is pretty au fait with Wikipedia and how it works.
(In general, I'm really glad Wikipedia is utterly mainstream and gets
coverage outside the ad-banner trolls of the tech press.)
- d.
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:07:55 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NYTimes article: Exploring Fact City
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A lovely article. The only pity is it doesn't note how much of this social
theory of wikis owes to Sunir Shah's pioneering work on MeatballWiki.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:02 PM, KillerChihuahua
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This is a lovely article, by a reporter who
actually doesn't seem to be
on a smear campaign or completely misunderstand how Wikipedia works -
altho its unclear how much of that is due to reading "The Wikipedia
Revolution".
Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/weekinreview/29cohen.html?ref=technology
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:14:30 +0000
From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NYTimes article: Exploring Fact City
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2009/3/29 The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com>om>:
A lovely article. The only pity is it doesn't
note how much of this
social
theory of wikis owes to Sunir Shah's
pioneering work on MeatballWiki.
MeatballWiki is all but unknown to most Wikipedians, let alone the
outside world. That's not good. I recommend it to all here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeatballWiki
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl
Think of it as meta-meta-wiki.
- d.
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:35:00 +0200
From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Foundation-l] Considerations for museums and archives to
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Hoi.
I am talking to a few museums and archives and several of them are
interested in considering Commons for their collection. At the same time
they are also considering Flickr.
The issue they have with Commons is its restrictions. One of the museums
said it like this: "We have done our best to ascertain the copyright status
of much of our material. We have not been able to find the original
copyright holder or someone who inherited these rights. When we post our
material to Flickr, we just remove the material when a copyright holder
turns up and asks us to. Doing it in any other way requires much more
effort. Effort that we rather spend in more productive endeavours like
digitising and annotating."
My question is, will it be acceptable when a museum or archive provides us
with their material and when we learn about a request to take down
material,
we do this when requested by the copyright holder. This is not considered
an issue with Flickr !!
Thanks,
GerardM
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:50:49 +0200
From: Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I am talking to a few museums and archives and several of them are
> interested in considering Commons for their collection. At the same time
> they are also considering Flickr.
> The issue they have with Commons is
its restrictions. One of the museums
> said it like this: "We have done our best to ascertain the copyright
status
> of much of our material. We have not been ?able to find the original
> copyright holder or someone who inherited these rights. When we post our
> material to Flickr, we just remove the material when a copyright holder
> turns up and asks us to. Doing it in any other way requires much more
> effort. Effort that we rather spend in more productive endeavours like
> digitising and annotating."
> My question is, will it be acceptable
when a museum or archive provides
us
with their material and when we learn about a
request to take down
material,
we do this when requested by the copyright
holder. ?This is not
considered
an issue with Flickr !!
Once again, if we have
non-free.wikimedia.org repository, with precise
rules, we wouldn't be able to have all kinds of materials which policy
of Commons prohibits:
* Orphan works.
* Somewhat more flexible conditions for the situations like you mentioned.
* Logos and other trademarks at one place.
* Strictly defined fair use images (like on en.wp) at one place.
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:51:53 +0200
From: Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Once again, if we have
non-free.wikimedia.org
repository, with precise
rules, we wouldn't be able to have all kinds of materials which policy
of Commons prohibits:
... we would be able to have some kinds...
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:50:02 -0600
From: Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] I'm a creative commoner!!!
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I was surprised last year to receive an e-mail from the journal Nature
Genetics. They put one of my pictures that they found on Commons on the
cover of the journal. I've received a couple of other similar but lower
profile requests. Commons is definitely a great way to get your work seen.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com
>wrote:
> I got this email back in summer,
2007. Did I just steal a job from
> professional photographer? Or would they just leave blank book cover?
> Will this lead to a better bridge in future? Did I join a civil cause?
> All I know now, is that I?m book cover photographer, albeit quite
> cheap one. Also, by using CC license I simply used lingua-franca of
> world I?m in - and now my content can evolve into shapes that I
> couldn?t expect, and that would be limited by non-portable licenses.
> Other anecdote is way more internal.
I have cheap point-and-shoot
> camera (same one to shoot book cover pictures :) that I use during my
> travels. It fits well into my jeans pocket, it doesn?t provide me any
> self esteem in professional photography. Still, I get to places, I
> take pictures, I place them on my flickr photostream, and I license
> them under creative commons. And fascinating things happen - my
> pictures appear on top of Wikipedia articles (like
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings_in_the_world
> ), without any intervention of mine. People just use it, I can sit
> back, relax, and see how the contribution widens.
> Of course, there other different
stories. My colleague (and manager)
> runs a wiki about his own town, Bielepedia, and he wants to exchange
> information with Wikipedia. Now he can?t, as well as quite a lot of
> other free content community projects. Though of course, some may
> believe license difference doesn?t mean much, in this case it means
> that we?re building borders we don?t need nor we have intent to
> maintain.
> I live and breathe Wikipedia
technology, but I do not feel competent
> enough to go and push content itself around, and it just shows up
> there itself (oh, of course, there?s army of committed volunteers who
> help with that). So, I benefit the project just by being creative
> commoner, and I may benefit lots of other projects. We at Wikipedia
> technical team are very open in what we do, and try to spread our know-
> how in many directions. Documents I wrote about how we do things ended
> up downloaded hundred thousand times, and I really hope that some of
> that know-how will end up used and reused.
> I guess I?m taking this to extremes -
I ended up talking to people in
> government of Lithuania, journalists and non-profit activists. Imagine
> a government, that would commit to open licensing for produced
> content. Well, no need to imagine - US federal institutions release
> information to public domain, but in Europe it is way more restricted.
> Still, what one has to realize - at government level it is not only a
> right to be given, it also has to be a right that has to be protected.
> Nowadays that means going to copyright powerhouses that serve large
> record labels and movie studios, and will charge for services, that
> government has to provide for free (and does in other areas, like
> looking for your stolen car).
> We have lots and lots of talks about
knowledge-societies at government
> levels, but we never get to the point, that every individual is part
> of that, and first of all we have to teach those rights, and guard
> them. But of course, to prove, that our rights have to be guarded, we
> have to show how great our work is - and how powerful can our sharing
> be. To achieve that we have to build bridges between license islands,
> talk same languages, and of course, create.
> I?m a creative commoner. So should be
you.
> P.S. So should be Wikimedia
Foundation. I?m extremely excited about
> the work being done to make it reality (thanks Erik, Mike, Mako,
> everyone!), and you know my personal position on the matter by now :)
> Cheers,
> --
> Domas Mituzas --
http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]]
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