Clever idea Andy, lets hope it becomes popular Maybe people could leave a voice sample, a picture? and
*the option of having any of their remaining intellectual property rights to be given to the world in the event of their death. - ie no 70 years of waiting for a useful but valueless orphan image * Is their a lawyer who thinks this could be done? I was hoping an idea like this might encourage people to rethink some the idea of slapping copyright messages on your holiday snaps. Sorry of thats a bit off subject
R
On 8 February 2013 13:56, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
How can the UK chapter support the project I started:
< http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensed-format-recordings-voices-wikipedia...
asking the subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second sample of their speaking voice, for use on those articles?
An example script is "Hello, my name is [name]. I was born in [place] and I have been [job or position] since [year]".
So far, the participants:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voice_intro_project
include Alice Arnold, Sue Black, Quentin Cooper, Corrie Corfield, Cory Doctorow, Jack Schofield, Bill Thompson and Dave Winer; and we've just had our first recording in French - but we need many more.
Of course, this isn't limited to article subjects, and it would be a good idea if board members and chapter staff would consider adding their voices, so they can be identified in conference calls and recorded meetings.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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