[Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?

Sat Jan 29 06:00:50 UTC 2011

Дана Saturday 29 January 2011 01:39:26 David Goodman написа:
> A wonderful precedent for other approaches to press agencies--it will
> perhaps work best for those agencies   that   have an appropriate
> special concern for the area or subject.

This seems like a good place to mention that the precedent was set by the Beta 
news agency ( http://www.beta.rs/ ) which gave permission for its news to be 
uploaded to Wikinews as CC-BY.

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:16 PM, aude <aude.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:32 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 28 January 2011 23:28, aude <aude.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >> >> Relevant to Egypt and WMF, it is important that Al-Jazeera has
> >> >> released a pile of photos and video as CC by-nd and CC-by-nc-nd:
> >> >
> >> > Already have contacted them and they are willing to give us
> >> > permission.
> >> >
> >> :-D :-D :-D
> >>
> >> This is BIG NEWS. A hearty HIP HIP HOORAY to everyone involved in this!
> >>
> >> Now we need permission from a *second* network ...
> >
> > They have posted one video now, and working on putting more up.
> >
> > http://cc.aljazeera.net/asset/language/arabic/footage-egyptian-protests-a
> >l-jazeera-office
> >
> > It's CC-BY licensed.
> >
> > I'm pretty technical, but if someone better with video wants to help
> > convert it to ogg theora format and get it uploaded to Commons, that
> > would be awesome.