A guiding path that makes the collaboration among cultural institutions and Wikipedia easier. It has been created for WikiAfrica and gives its contribution to the GLAM project.
Share Your Knowledge | Get Started | Guidelines | Current work | Evaluation in 2012 | History |
|
→WikiAfrica | →GLAM |
Hints on how cultural institutions can give their contribute to Wikipedia.
These examples of clauses for free license contents release have been written down within the pilot project Share Your Knowledge and can be used by institutions to update their agreement texts.
Please note these samples were originally developed for Italian institutions, so you may need to adapt them to your local law.
In order to give Wikipedia the authorization to use already published texts and/or images (on websites, magazines, books and other communication means), send an e-mail to permissionswikimedia.org filling in the forms with the required data:
The undersigned [full data] declares to be the author and/or to own the artwork copyright [description, text title or images list] published in [website full address, or paper artwork title and page, or reference to the attached text]. I give my authorization to publish the content on Wikipedia under endless and free Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported), license, of which I have read the legal text and accept the conditions (in particular the artwork paternity acknowledgement and the chance for everyone to freely edit and spread it also for commercial purposes).
For further examples and details please refer to Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Examples to be used to integrate the institution sample contracts, agreements etc.
You can use it to release artworks (texts, pictures, videos, graphic projects, websites).
The undersigned [full data] through this private agreement, valid for any law effect and consequence, gives his/her authorization [institution name] to use [content description], including those regarding the use of the name, image, written and/or played word, music, releasing wide and irrevocable acquittance valid all over the world. The undersigned in particular gives [institution name] authorization for the reproduction on DVDs and CDs and in any other form or magnetic or paper support.
[Only for Italy:] The undersigned also declares not to be registered with
SIAE and that the produced material is not under SIAE tutelage.
The undersigned [full data] declares to own the copyright of [content description] and accepts the artwork release under endless and free Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported), of which he/she has read the legal text.
Taking part into the competition, the candidate accepts and acknowledges hereby that the given artwork is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported) license at the time of the release and without any further communication.
The acceptance of the appointment states that all the copyrights on each artwork created within the project in Italy and in any other country are assigned to [institution name]. The rights included can be - without any limit - those of copy, distribution, representation, press or any other means distribution or seminaries, meeting, conferences and online availability spreading, for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
The acceptance of the appointment states that you accept and acknowledge hereby that each artwork created within the project will be released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported) license at the time of the release and without any further communication.
The parts mutually acknowledge and accept the fact that hereby each artwork created within the partnership project will be released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported) license at the time of the release and without any further communication.