[Wikimedia-l] BBC Open Content

[Richard Symonds]

There's also a "no promotion" clause - you can't use the work to promote 
your organisation. This is above and beyond the normal 'no derogatory 
use' clause...

Richard Symonds
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On 10/04/2012 17:27, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> CC-BY-SA-NC isn't a bad license. I know we strongly prefer licenses
> that allow commericial use (and need them if we're going to use the
> content on Wikimedia projects), but if -NC is the best we can get we
> should be trying to encourage it. Is there any way we can revive the
> 2006 proposal?
>
> PS Having just looked at that link, there is a "UK only" clause. I
> don't think we could live with that... (I understand why it is there -
> the BBC makes a lot of money selling its content overseas - but
> geographic limits are highly impractical.)
>
> On 10 April 2012 17:08, Richard Symonds
> <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk>  wrote:
>> Correct: Derivatives are allowed
>>
>>
>> Richard Symonds
>> Office&    Development Manager
>> Wikimedia UK
>> +44 (0) 207 065 0992
>> --
>> Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Charitable Company
>> Registered in England and Wales, No: 6741827. Charity No:1144513 Office: 4th
>> Floor, Development House,  56-64 Leonard Street,
>> London EC2A 4LT.
>> Wikimedia UK is the local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
>> Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit
>> organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for
>> its contents.
>>
>>
>> On 10/04/2012 16:57, David Gerard wrote:
>>> On 10 April 2012 16:54, Richard Symonds
>>> <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk>    wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looks like the BBC are now starting to use goodly amounts of open
>>>> content.
>>>> One that's caught my eye is a piece on the seige of Sarajevo, part of
>>>> which
>>>> is CC-BY-SA licenced, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17617775.
>>>
>>> Have we ever gotten any video of theirs released by them, not just
>>> examples of them using others' open content?
>>>
>>> (IME the BBC is roughly divided between "free it all!" and "that's
>>> impossible!" with the latter in control.)
>>>
>>>
>>> - d.
>>>
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