[Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?

[aude]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Relevant to Egypt and WMF, it is important that Al-Jazeera has
> released a pile of photos and video as CC by-nd and CC-by-nc-nd:
>
>
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/al_jazeera_releases_egypt_coverage_under_creative.php
>
> Now, those aren't free content licenses. But for a news organisation
> to release stuff under even such restrictive licenses as those is
> *radical*.
>
> Is there anyone who could ask someone at Al Jazeera about releasing
> selected photos or clips as CC by-sa? Possible pitch: "Your images of
> the event on Wikipedia! Representing it to the world!"
>

Already have contacted them and they are willing to give us permission.

Right now, there are just some photos on Flickr (
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/) from earlier this week.
They will be posting more on http://cc.aljazeera.net and we just need to
select a few.

They will check that they were indeed taken by Al-Jazeera and not a
third-party.

Please come to the article talk page to make suggestions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2011_Egyptian_protests#Al_Jazeera_photos

Cheers,
Katie (@aude)


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