hi,
Just a small little note to let everyone know that the Mumbai community
hosted the Creative Commons workshop yesterday.
We had with us IIT-B Associate Professor and Creative Commons Project Lead
(India), Shishir Jha. We had a nice mix of audience - people interested and
active in copyright issues, film makers, librarians, publishers, etc. of up
to 30 people.
Shishir Jha began his talk with an explanation of the digital economy and
then showed a 10 min intro (to give you an idea -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BESbnMJg9M; if you know where a copy exists
outside of YouTube, please do share!) to Creative Commons after talking
about the various Creative Commons licenses.
Ashwin Baindur was present from the Pune community and gave us an insight
into Wikimedia Commons. He also explained why Wikimedia used the CC licenses
it did and illustrated it with an example.
Gautam John, from the Wikimedia Chapter was also present at the meeting. He
presented a brief about the Wikimedia chapter and invited members to join
the chapter. He also spoke about Pratham Books' experiment with the use of
Creative Commons.
We had a fine and diverse audience who were people who had worked on the
ground. They had faced some of the problems related to copyrights and raised
good questions.
The project (pad.ma - you can find them at
http://pad.ma/) have taken video
of the talk which will be released to Wikimedia Commons. We will also upload
slides from Shishir's talk if he sends it to us - we have made a request.
The Mumbai community has sponsored the membership for Shishir Jha to the
Wikimedia Chapter as a token of our appreciation.
warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas