Hello,

A workshop on Wikimedia copyright-related topics will take place on 20-21 October in Bangalore or slightly around. Pre-event session is on 19 October early evening.

Any Wikimedian from South Indian states Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, who are actively working, may apply to participate in the workshop.

The primary resource person of the workshop will be User:Yann

Some of the topics to be discussed during the workshop are (more topics may be added)

Different Creative Commons licenses (CC licences) and terminologies such as CC, SA, BY, ND, NC, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
Public domain in general and Public domain in India
Copyright of photos of different things such as painting, sculpture, monument, coins, banknotes, book covers, etc.
Freedom of Panorama
Personality rights
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA, specially impact on Indian works)
Government Open Data License India (GODL)
topic may be added based on needs-assessment of the participants

Please see the event page here, and consider joining: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Copyright_workshop:_South_India

Partial participation is not allowed. In order to bridge gendergap, female Wikimedians are encouraged to apply.

Thanks

Tito Dutta

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