On 9/18/06, Forbidden Places <postmaster(a)forbidden-places.be> wrote:
Hi Jason,
No problem, as long as the videos are not edited.
We will not edit the video. Other
people will be able to edit the
video in the future once it is posted on Wikipedia, but we at
Wikipedia have no plans to. It would be nice if you remove the ad for
your website in the corner of your video though... :-)
What do I have to do?
1. We need to know who made the video and the music.
(We need to know who owns the copyright on the video and the music to
ensure there will be no issues. We would ask for the full names (or
Internet nicknames) and email addresses of these people.)
2. You would need to agree to license the videos under an open-content
license. My recommended way to do this is to state in an email that
you "dual-license the videos under the current GNU Free Documentation
License and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 2.5 and
any later version". All copyright holders, including for the video and
the music, would need to agree to this. This basically means that
anyone will be able to copy the video from Wikipedia, remix it or do
other things with it, and post it on other sites, as long as they
mention who created the video. Licensing is a necessary step for
Wikipedia. If you don't understand these terms, or want different
terms, please do "Reply to All" again and tell us. The people on the
wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org mailing list can then help you with licensing.
3. Ogg Theora re-encoding.
We would need to encode your video in Ogg Theora format, the video
codec we use at Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media#Video ). We may be able
to re-encode the high-resolution video you have at
http://www.forbidden-places.be/videos.php for you, but to get the best
quality, you would want to do the Ogg encoding yourself from the
original film in your video-editing program. Our maximum video file
size is 20 MB.
I'd love to get a link from wiki (en) from the
urban exploration page, would
that be possible?
Sorry, Wikipedia is not a web directory. :-( We link to
infiltration.org but we are unable to link to all the smaller urbex
sites.
What do you think of the above 3 steps?
Cheers,
Jason