I've been asked to provide examples of UK universities releasing media under open licence (as opposed to giving us their images of out-of-copyright works).
Do any spring to mind?
(In my capacity as a volunteer) I spoke to the University of Liverpool Library/Archives and they were happy to release some images taken by the university photographer of the Liverpool Overhead Railway under a CC license. Unfortunately their OTRS email wasn't quite specific enough so the images were deleted and I never managed to get them to send another email :(
Sam
On 7 June 2017 at 16:50, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I've been asked to provide examples of UK universities releasing media under open licence (as opposed to giving us their images of out-of-copyright works).
Do any spring to mind?
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What a shame Sam!
I think Martin Poulter in particular would be a good person to respond to on this, as might Ewan McAndrew.
Cheers Lucy
On 7 June 2017 at 16:54, Sam Walton swalton@wikimedia.org wrote:
(In my capacity as a volunteer) I spoke to the University of Liverpool Library/Archives and they were happy to release some images taken by the university photographer of the Liverpool Overhead Railway under a CC license. Unfortunately their OTRS email wasn't quite specific enough so the images were deleted and I never managed to get them to send another email :(
Sam
On 7 June 2017 at 16:50, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I've been asked to provide examples of UK universities releasing media under open licence (as opposed to giving us their images of out-of-copyright works).
Do any spring to mind?
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We should encourage more experienced editors to volunteer for OTRS. It's one of those systems where it's often easy to sort out if you can actually speak to somebody who can deal with it.
It's not what you know ...
On 14 June 2017 at 19:32, Rex X rexx@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
We should encourage more experienced editors to volunteer for OTRS.
We need to deal with the problems with OTRS first; I raised them (not for the first time) here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&oldid=16631...
and the section was archived with no further posts to those in the above version, despite the promise, made here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Matthewrbowker&oldi...
of a reply; and apparently nothing done to remedy them.
On 14 June 2017 at 17:05, leutha@fabiant.eu wrote:
Hi all,
This reflects my experience with OTRS. I actually sent the exact wording to Chris Knight, so that was not the problem. Nothing happened for 6 weeks until I met someone on OTRS who very kindly did the job in about five minutes.
How do we fix this?
With difficultly. There are currently 447 open emails in permissions-commons and 1219 in permissions in general and they are all very boring. At the same time the bits of info-en that I have access to have 611 open emails which tend to be slightly more interesting (although a lot of politics and notability). 447 at 5 minutes a time also amounts to ~37 hours work.
Realistically we may have to accept that permissions isn't really something you can get volunteers to do on a large enough scale. Which either means trying to get the WMF to do it or seeing if one of the people we pay at WMUK has time to do it for UK based projects (obviously this is slightly dependent on what the legal bods say).
The University of Exeter's Flickr stream used to have some CC images (most events from what I remember), but it looks like the licence has been changed.
On 7 June 2017 at 16:50, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I've been asked to provide examples of UK universities releasing media under open licence (as opposed to giving us their images of out-of-copyright works).
Do any spring to mind?
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Cambridge University publishes most of their online content as CC-By-NC-ND. Well it's CC but whether it should be considered "open" is another debate.
I believe the choice of NC-ND is down to older academics' wish to pre-empt the debate on moral rights of derivative works by forbidding derivation under open copyright.
Deryck
On 7 Jun 2017 4:51 pm, "Andy Mabbett" andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I've been asked to provide examples of UK universities releasing media under open licence (as opposed to giving us their images of out-of-copyright works).
Do any spring to mind?
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The University of Edinburgh releases a lot of media material under open licence. Here’s a few sources, Ewan may be able to suggest more.
Open.Ed open licenses educational resources including images, video and 3d models http://open.ed.ac.uk/about/ Centre for Research Collections on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/crcedinburgh/ UoE Image Collections http://images.is.ed.ac.uk/ MediaHopper Creative Commons https://media.ed.ac.uk/category/Creative+Commons/ https://media.ed.ac.uk/category/Creative+Commons/
Resources are released under a range of open licences, but there’s quite a lot of CC BY stuff there.
Cheers, Lorna
On 7 Jun 2017, at 17:34, Deryck Chan <deryckchan@gmail.commailto:deryckchan@gmail.com> wrote:
Cambridge University publishes most of their online content as CC-By-NC-ND. Well it's CC but whether it should be considered "open" is another debate.
I believe the choice of NC-ND is down to older academics' wish to pre-empt the debate on moral rights of derivative works by forbidding derivation under open copyright.
Deryck
On 7 Jun 2017 4:51 pm, "Andy Mabbett" <andy@pigsonthewing.org.ukmailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: I've been asked to provide examples of UK universities releasing media under open licence (as opposed to giving us their images of out-of-copyright works).
Do any spring to mind?
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On 9 June 2017 at 13:00, CAMPBELL Lorna lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk wrote:
The University of Edinburgh releases a lot of media material under open licence. Here’s a few sources
Thank you. That's a very commendable action on behalf of the university, and a very helpful example.
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