New License Draft
(thread in General forum)by David Evan Harris on 2010-06-08 09:52:42
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Dear Global Lives Collaborators,
I've posted the following draft of a new license policy with the specific intent of allowing for us to continue to protect the rights of all people who appear in our videos, while at the same time giving as free access as possible to our footage to audiences and would-be collaborators around the world.
This issue comes up at present because I am specifically interested in uploading our footage to the Wikimedia Commons, as I see the educational mission of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia as lining up completely with our own cultural and artistic goals.
This proposal is still in draft form, as I am awaiting word from the Wikimedia Commons community as to whether or not a statement like this would make our footage eligible for upload. You can see the discussion thread on this at the Wikimedia Commons Village Pump.
In the interim, I invite any and all questions, comments, suggestions for changes or other thoughts on licensing to this thread.
Thank you!
David
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Global Lives Project Licensing Change Draft
June 2, 2010
Drafted by David Harris (GLP Executive Director) and Elizabeth Miles (GLP Counsel, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP)
Proposed draft text for http://www.globallives.org/license
All Global Lives Project footage, unless marked otherwise, is available under both the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Sharealike and Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike licenses.
What does this mean?
This means that the Global Lives Project and our collaborating artists allow for specific forms of reuse of our video and photo work under the CC-BY-NC-SA and CC-BY-SA licenses. The Creative Commons licenses only extend to the copyright of our work, and do not apply to any other non-copyright intellectual property rights in the work. As such, we do not license any non-copyright rights in our works to you by the Creative Commons licenses.
Among the rights we do not license to you is the right of publicity of our on-screen participants. The people who appear in the footage have entrusted the Global Lives Project with their images for use in meeting the artistic and educational mission and goals of the Global Lives Project. This means that the images of our on-screen participants may not be used in any way that would violate their rights of publicity. Such violations may include use without consent on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods or services, or as otherwise prohibited by law. Educational (i.e., Wikipedia entries; distribution to teachers) and artistic uses (i.e., video art, film) in keeping with the mission of the Global Lives Project and in conformance with the law are encouraged.
We also highlight the Creative Commons license text that reads "...you must not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in relation to the Work which would be prejudicial to the Original Author's honor or reputation..." and note that the Original Author in this case includes the Global Lives Project, collaborating artists, and all on-screen participants. Before reusing our work, we encourage you to thoroughly familiarize yourself with the Creative Commons licenses linked above.
Attribution:
The Global Lives Project name and logo and the names and titles of all members of the production team for the footage in question must be listed in the credits to the work, at least as prominently as the credits for the other contributing authors. The Global Lives Project website (http://www.GlobalLives.org) must also be listed in the credits, as well as a reference to the specific clip being used (i.e., http://globallives.org/video/a6845154-993e-49de-820b-0b3438ca48ae/) and, in the case of web uses, such listings must be hyperlinked to the relevant web pages. For names of production teams, see http://globallives.org/crews . You may not implicitly or explicitly assert or imply any connection, sponsorship or endorsement of your work with or by the Global Lives Project.