[Commons-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

[David Gerard]

Could be a nice idea!


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From: Jovan Cormac <limulus at gmx.net>
Date: 2009/9/6
Subject: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force
To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org


I'd like to propose a project I tentatively refer to as "Commons
Force" (Meta link: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsForce).

Commons Force is a wiki used to coordinate a force of volunteers who
*actively* educate people about the concepts of public domain and the
Creative Commons.

That entails those volunteers systematically searching the internet
and media archives such as Flickr for PD and CC material wrongly
labelled as being "copyright, all rights reserved" and the likes, and
notifying the person who wrongly used the label about the problem
(using whatever means are provided by the site), along with a link to
a small wiki designed exclusively to educate about PD and CC.

The goal is *not* to threaten those people in any way, and messages
sent will never contain any threats, whether legal, moral or personal.
Rather, the project aims to educate the many, many internet users who
don't worry about rights at all, because they truly don't know jack
about them. They might know copyright, but overestimate its reach
and/or not be aware that there are alternatives. When being told about
the wide world of rights and how copyright alternatives like Creative
Commons can promote access to free knowledge they might consider
re-licensing most or all of their works.

In essence, what's being proposed is a Wiki that acts as a complement
to the Open-source Ticket Request System on Commons. Instead of
receiving license information about media on Commons, the idea is to
send out license information about media on the internet to those whom
it concerns.

Since this would obviously promote both the free access to knowledge
and people's awareness of key open content concepts like PD and CC,
the proposal is in line with the very heart of Wikimedia's goals.


Your opinions & input are more than welcome at the project's
discussion page, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CommonsForce.


Cheers,
Jovan Cormac
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