2019:Advocacy/CC.0 licence, what's the issue to loose attribution and copyleft during Wikimédia project participation ?
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Title
[edit | edit source]CC.0 licence, what's the issue to loose attribution and copyleft during Wikimédia project participation ?
Description
[edit | edit source]When Richard Stallman started the free software movement by creating GNU, the first operating system under free licence, He was very careful that his work was not taken over by others to build private derivatives and put them under copyright. If this had happened, it would have been the end of the free software boom, from which the freedom to use wiki software would flow directly, blocking the possibility of Wikipedia to be born and exist from a very limited budget.
Today we see the CC.0 license appear within Wikimedia projects. First in Wikidata and then in the Wikimedia Commons. This novelty does not come without raising some questions from users:
- Am I ready to lose the authorship of my work?
- Am I ready for actors to get my work back to make non-free products and put it under copyright. Products that I may one day have to pay for to have access when I have contributed free and anonymously to enrich the data they use?
As the CC0 is actually applied only on structured data in Wikimedia commons as in Wikidata, the answers to theses questions could be provided by a better understanding of what's means structured data with more information about the legal context turning around.
Relationship to the theme
[edit | edit source]N°16 : Peace, justice and strong institutions.
Session outcomes
[edit | edit source]- Better understanding for attendees about what is CC0, what means structured data and legal issues linked to this two topics
Session leader(s)
[edit | edit source]- Lionel Scheepmans
- An other person specialist on data legislation should be present to this activity.
Usernames
[edit | edit source]- Lionel Scheepmans
- An other person specialist on data legislation should be present to this activity.
Affiliation/country (if any)
[edit | edit source]- fr.wikiversity (administrator)
- Wikimedia Belgium Board member in charge of Cultural Diversity, Knowledge Equity and educational aspects in Wikimedia projects
E-mail contact (optional)
[edit | edit source]- lionel
scheepmans[dot]be - ...
Session type
[edit | edit source]The format of this submission is a:
- Lightning talk
- Workshop to identify and try to solve problem
- Roundtable discussion forum
Requirements
[edit | edit source]The session will work best with these conditions:
- Room:
most appropriate physical setup is round-table seating
- Audience:
can be a large audience with no specific skill on knowledge needed.
- Recording:
This session is appropriate for filming by a single camera, sharable on the internet, with a free-licence.