Hello Everyone,
I created some social messaging for a story Michael found about quantifying
the public domain in monetary terms. URL:
http://phys.org/news/2015-04-absence-copyright-economic-social-benefits.html
Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.
Tweet structure:
Account: @wikipedia
A new paper co-written by Kristofer Erickson and Martin Kretschmer attempts
to quantify a portion of the #publicdomain in monetary terms.
Kristofer Erickson and Martin Kretschmer quantified the #publicdomain
images on Wikipedia into monetary terms.
“The total value of #publicdomain photographs on Wikipedia is between $246
million to $270 million per year.”
FB/G+ structure:
Account: wikipedia
“A new study co-written by a University of Illinois expert in intellectual
property law demonstrates that the value of creative works in the public
domain such as books, images and music can be estimated at least as
precisely as the value of commercially available copyrighted works.”
“The absence of copyright creates value, and creative industries rely on
public domain works as building blocks for many valuable new creations."
“To put a monetary value on how much creative works in the public domain
contribute to the creation of new works, the authors used Wikipedia pages
as an example of new authors creating new works that rely on the public
domain in the authorship process.”
"We studied the biographical Wikipedia pages of a large data set of
authors, composers and lyricists to determine whether the public domain
status of available images leads to a higher rate of inclusion of
illustrated supplementary material.”
Thanks,
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Andrew Sherman
Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
*E:* asherman(a)wikimedia.org
*WMF:* ASherman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)>