Hi!
Just and idea for GLAM projects...
I watched recently "World War 1 in Colour"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_1_in_Colour). It's very
impressive to see quite a lot of filming from this period.
DVD credit The Imperial War Museum London for original black and white
footage. May be Wikimedia UK charter could try to arrange access for
public domain materials too? Sure, other charters could try the same
with their countries archives.
Eugene.
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Hi all,
The Wikimedia UK board has been putting together a budget for the
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Hi!
I recently watched "BBC History of World War II: Hiroshima"
(http://www.amazon.com/BBC-History-World-War-Hiroshima/dp/B000F4RH8Y/ref=sr_…).
I found this movie in local library.
Special features includes two documentaries:
1) "A Tale of Two Cities" made by US Army and Navy.
2) Interview with US Air Forces personnel participated in bombings.
(However origin is not clear, so I'm not sure that this is PD).
3) Also some parts of main feature are just US Air Force documentaries.
I think will be great to have such documentaries in Commons (Commons
doesn't seem to have it).
I'm not specialist in DVD ripping and Ogg conversion, so any help will
be appreciated. I believe that experienced person could made this job
much faster and better then me.
Eugene.
PS
However, I'm not sure that movie restoration is not creating new copyrights.
On 10 February 2010 13:21, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> I've sometimes thought that, in an ideal world, we should just phase
> out PD-old and all its forms - it's often, as you say, wishful
> thinking, or sometimes (and I know in my early days I did this) a
> cover for a misunderstanding about just what the thresholds are.
> So what'd we replace it with? Something functionally like...
> {{copyright
> |date=1895
> |location=Germany
> |author=anonymous
> }}
> ...and have it then spit out, well, "this image is free under German
> copyright law (sect. 473 ii) and in the United States (Title 15, 7)"
> or the like, with an option to click to have it generate a copyright
> status in Canada or France or where have you. We do *have* this data
> for a sizable proportion of our images, after all, and it's a bit lazy
> when we take all this and slap a "well, PD, I guess" rubber-stamp on
> it!
> I doubt this is *practical* in the near term, of course, but it's a
> thought. Any other ideas?
I think this is a brilliant idea and would deal with the problem
marvellously. And it should be reasonably easy to implement in an
incremental manner without disruption.
cc to commons-l - is there anything about this that'd be hard? Apart
from going through a zillion images. The key point is it wouldn't
disrupt anything existing.
- d.
Hi all,
(apologies for the cross-posting and UK-specificness)
The Hunterian have just released a mini-podcast about Britain Loves
Wikipedia - you can see it at:
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/whatson/wiki/wikipedia-at-the-
hunterian.shtml
We also have lots of events coming up in the next week and a bit
across the UK:
- Saturday 13 February - Manchester Museum
- Sunday 14 February - East Lothian museums
- Tuesday 16 February - Mill Green Museum
- Wednesday 17 February - The Hunterian Museum
- Thursday 18 February - Bedford Museum
- Saturday 20 February - British Postal Museum's store
All of these events are offering something more than the usual access
to the museum - you can get behind the scenes and see (and
photograph) thing that you normally wouldn't be able to. This is a
great opportunity to get photographs of objects for Wikipedia that
you wouldn't normally be able to. Oh, and you can also win prizes!
Full details are on the Britain Loves Wikipedia website - http://
britainloveswikipedia.org/
BTW, I'm hoping that we can organize more things like this in the
future, at different museums throughout the UK - but that can only
happen if these events are well attended. ;-)
Thanks,
Mike Peel
Wikimedia UK
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On 8 Feb 2010, at 23:05, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> This is also a particular problem with pictures of living people,
> since we've
> been told that since it's *possible* to take another picture of a
> living
> person, all non-free images of living people are prohibited. The
> official
> way of interpreting "it's possible to" takes no consideration of
> just how
> possible it is. In any other context this would be considered
> rules-lawyering--
> we're basically officially rules-lawyering our own policies.
Personally, I think we should remove all non-free images from all
language Wikipedias (and everywhere else they occur) - as they make
it difficult to get freely licensed content off people that already
have that content. Case study: I emailed ESA to ask for a photograph
of a satellite to use in an article; they provided a 200 pixel image
I could use as 'fair use' in return. In the past, we weren't big
enough to have any leverage to get that content released - but now we
are, and we could have that leverage if we want to take advantage of it.
However, that is somewhat separate from the question of images that
are in the public domain _somewhere_. It is somewhat crazy that US
laws dictate what public domain materials you can upload to Wikipedia
etc - irrespective of what laws apply in your own country.
One possibility that might be worth investigating is something like
Wikilivres - which holds books that are out of copyright in Canada
(life+50 years) but not in the US. It can do that as its servers are
based in Canada. Could we do something similar with Wikimedia
Commons? i.e. host multimedia content on a server in a different
geographical area, and then have that linked in with Wikipedia in the
same way that Commons currently is? There shouldn't be any concerns
about having thumbnail images of these works on Wikipedia, as these
are all done under fair use anyway (e.g. all of those uncredited CC-
BY-SA images...).
Mike