The five available videos have been re-encoded to webm (mp4 is a
non-free format) and released on Wikimedia Commons.[1] Some are
already in use on the German Wikipedia.[2]
If ZDF copied their CC-BY videos to YouTube, there are several tools
available that can assist mass uploading and encoding from YouTube.
There is a convenient system for adding multiple language text
captions to videos on Commons, perhaps a volunteer might want to make
these more accessible this way?[3]
Links
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 11:50, Lilli Iliev <Lilli.Iliev(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Dear all,
Germany's national public television broadcaster ZDF releases video clips and photos
on climate change and global warming under CC BY 4.0 for the first time on this website:
https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/terra-x-creative-commons-cc-100.ht…
Though there are things to improve, like adding a CC-button with more info on correct
licensing in each video, this his can be seen as a milestone and a role model for more
content and public service broadcasters like ARD to open up and share content especially
in the fields of news and documentation.
After all, media under public law are publicly financed and using free licences would
correspond to their mission since they'd make a significant contribution to the reach
of public content.
Feel free to share the news and make them visible on twitter and other channels.
Tweet by WMDE (german):
https://twitter.com/WikimediaDE/status/1186304730932355072
Blogpost on
netzpolitik.org (german):
https://netzpolitik.org/2019/zdf-veroeffentlicht-terra-x-clips-unter-freier…
best
Lilli
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