[Open-access] February 25 is [[Copyright transfer agreement]] day

Sat Feb 25 09:26:31 UTC 2012

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Daniel Mietchen <
daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com> wrote:

> The file is now live:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
> http://www.webcitation.org/65hebsXVT
>
> Daniel
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Daniel Mietchen
> <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > with the subject line, I mean that Alex Holcombe's video of a dialogue
> > between publisher and researcher about signing the copyright transfer
> > agreement
> > (
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scientist-meets-publisher-English.ogv)
> > is going to be featured on the main page of Wikimedia Commons
> > (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page )
> > under Media of the Day, with a link to
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_transfer_agreement .
> >
> > If you were thinking about blogging on such agreements or related
> > issues, tomorrow may be a good day for that.
>

The movie itself has no declaration of rights (unless I have missed it).
Embedding the movie in Wikimedia pages is fragile declaration of rights. A
simple CC-BY or CC0 on the credits is needed.

We discussed this on open-access meetup yesterday. Can we come up with a
simple digital means for stamping images and movies as CC-BY/0/PDDL? It's
not difficult to see how it could be done for images (create a bitmap,
replace the pixels with "@access CC0" or whatever. I'm sure I'm not the
first to think of it.

> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Daniel
>
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