I know there was interest in writing a blog post about the Malayalam maps
project, so maybe combine both projects into a post specifically addressing
this issue? Then you can send that post to the media outlets who are getting
it wrong, as well as proactively reach out to other media as well?
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
According to me these type of issues arise due to the
lack of awareness
about copyright related topics among press reporters. I assume the reporter
made this story based on my blog post published at,
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/malayalam-loves-wikimedia-event-2…
In the first paragraph of the blog post I mentioned:
....Malayalam wikimedians have organised a photo event from *2011 April 02
– 25* *to create more awareness about
copyleft-licensed images*,
wikimedia commons, and to attract more Malayalam speaking people to the
wikimedia movement.
But when the reporter made the story it became:
*the programme ‘Malayalam Loves Wikimedia’ was organised to create
awareness about copyright-free images, Wikimedia
Commons and to attract
more Malayalam speaking users to the Wikimedia movement.*
We couldn't do much here. And for this story, reporters didn't contacted
any of us. So it is not wikimedian's fault.
Some awareness programs can be planned for press reporters to address this
issue.
Shiju
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:09 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <
tinucherian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The newspaper had not contacted me or possibly
any ml Wikipedians directly
for this article.
There is a general misconception, among general public or media folks,
that the images that are free to use are not copyrighted.
Aniwar, How do you think we can create a general awareness to all ?
-Tinu Cherian
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind(a)gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:50 AM, CherianTinu
Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The 2,155 copyright-free images uploaded are on
diverse topics.
As i mentioned earlier this copyright-free tag coming up with most of
the reports on wikipedia is frustrating. We need to have a proper
strategy to address it. Most of the images uploaded in Malayalam
Loves wikipedia event are not copyright free
Anivar
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