[Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I like the idea of a video that explains copyright and licenses. It is
however important that this video is subtitled.. What is the status of
subtitling for your software ??
Thanks,
        GerardM

2009/9/6 Michael Dale <dale at ucsc.edu>

> I think a small interactive quiz or 30-60 sec videos at point of upload
> / contribution.. may help "encourage" people to get informed about these
> subjects and properly tag the media. For media pulled from external
> archive we should ideally only support importing compatible licensed media
>
> I don't think there is an issue of lack of quality documentation so much
> as reading that documentation is not a literal barrier to contributing.
> And possibly as you outline more people reaching out to inform.
>
> --michael
>
> Jovan Cormac wrote:
> > 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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