Dear Bobby,
Non-commercial (NC) means it doesn't belong on Wikimedia Commons. For more
detail on Commons licensing read this page
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing>.
Non Commercial use is one of the sticking points when talking to potential
GLAM partners. Some people have decided on Non-Commercial use because they
are a non-commercial organisation and don't see a need to having anything
to do with anything commercial, others are happy to release material under
a non-commercial license in the expectation of getting commercial revenue
from anyone they can argue is commercial. As far as the Wikimedia projects
are concerned a decision was taken to standardise on not accepting NC
licensed files in the early days of the project, and that decision is
highly unlikely to change. So this is one of the things to resolve when
negotiating a residency, and if an organisation is committed to
Non-Commercial use then we need to focus on other things. That doesn't mean
we can't have a residency with an organisation that is committed to NC
licensing of images. But it would need to focus on other things such as
access to archives and training of their volunteers. Of course persuading
an organisation to move from NC licensing to a license compatible with
Wikimedia Commons can also be a big part of a residency, but there is no
point digitising and or sorting out metadata for images until you are
confident that they will be licensed sufficiently to go to Commons.
Hope that helps. Happy to talk on Skype or maybe at Wikimania if you want
advice as to how to persuade an institution to go for a compatible license
with us.
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
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On 1 July 2014 18:51, BOBBY SHABANGU <bobbyshabangu(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi all ,
Thank you so much for this posting. I'm also the first ever WiR in the
South African Chapter [[WikimediaZA]] and this information is so much
helpful to me especially when it comes to reporting and what roles i can
play to improve my work with the host institution. This is my 3rd week
working with the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation. I'm working on a 4
months contract and though i try by all means to digitize as much documents
and pictures as i can however I don't see myself finishing all the work
after the 4 months because with each file I open there is a lot of untapped
history most of which is not even on the internet otherwise to cut a long
story short , one of the hurdles that I've faced is the licensing issue.
The Johannesburg Heritage Foundation have chosen to release their material
into commons under this license Creative Commons —
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/> which according to my
understanding it's not free. I'm interested in knowing under which license
are the institutions you've been working with releasing their material
under ?
Kind regards
Bobby Shabangu
WikimediaZA
Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
— CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/>
What does "Attribute this work" mean? The page you came from contained
embedded licensing metadata, including how the creator wishes to be
attributed for re-use.
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On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 6:45 PM, Andy Mabbett <
andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
On 1 July 2014 15:03, Daria Cybulska <daria.cybulska(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
I would like to get the report printed for
Wikimania - if
you have any comments that would require changes
of content do let me know by Friday 4th July.
The report states:
'As a chapter then we have run the Wikimedian
in Residence programme since May 2012, when
Andrew Gray started his residency at the British
Library.'
As pointed out previously, this was not the first residency run by the
chapter. The first was at ARKive, in 2011.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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