According to me these type of issues arise due to the lack of awareness
about copyright related topics among press reporters. I assume the reporter
made this story based on my blog post published at,
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/malayalam-loves-wikimedia-event-2…
In the first paragraph of the blog post I mentioned:
....Malayalam wikimedians have organised a photo event from *2011 April 02 –
25* *to create more awareness about copyleft-licensed
images*, wikimedia
commons, and to attract more Malayalam speaking people to the wikimedia
movement.
But when the reporter made the story it became:
*the programme ‘Malayalam Loves Wikimedia’ was organised to create awareness
about copyright-free images, Wikimedia Commons and to
attract more
Malayalam speaking users to the Wikimedia movement.*
We couldn't do much here. And for this story, reporters didn't contacted any
of us. So it is not wikimedian's fault.
Some awareness programs can be planned for press reporters to address this
issue.
Shiju
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:09 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
The newspaper had not contacted me or possibly any ml
Wikipedians directly
for this article.
There is a general misconception, among general public or media folks, that
the images that are free to use are not copyrighted.
Aniwar, How do you think we can create a general awareness to all ?
-Tinu Cherian
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:50 AM, CherianTinu
Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The 2,155 copyright-free images uploaded are on
diverse topics.
As i mentioned earlier this copyright-free tag coming up with most of
the reports on wikipedia is frustrating. We need to have a proper
strategy to address it. Most of the images uploaded in Malayalam
Loves wikipedia event are not copyright free
Anivar
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