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

[Andrew Gray]

On 29 January 2011 11:41, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> This seems like a good place to mention that the precedent was set by the Beta
>> news agency ( http://www.beta.rs/ ) which gave permission for its news to be
>> uploaded to Wikinews as CC-BY.
>
> I was completely unaware of this!
>
> I think we need a list of such examples. A WMF blog post may be appropriate.

Agência Brasil (Radiobras), the Brazilian government news agency,
releases its material as CC-BY. Using the highly unscientific method
of sampling the changes to the Commons template, it looks like they've
been doing this since mid-2006:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Ag%C3%AAncia_Brasil&action=history

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk