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   Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 17:06:47 JST Luis Villa

   • Creative Commons

   Some days I wonder if, quietly, CC0 is actually a bigger success story than the other @creativecommons licenses put together. Not to slight the other licenses! But CC0 is increasingly catalytic in the library, museum, and data spaces.

   https://www.openculture.com/2024/03/the-getty-makes-nearly-88000-art-images-free-to-use-however-you-like.html

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 22:01:34 JST Jessamyn

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     @luis_in_brief @creativecommons We're definitely looking at ways to think about how we can use CC0 in addition to the "No Known Copyright Restrictions" statement that our organizations use at Flickr Commons.

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 22:01:36 JST Luis Villa

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     • Jessamyn

     @jessamyn 👀 please let me know if there is anything CC can do to help with that discussion.

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     poritzj (poritzj@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 22:01:41 JST poritzj

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     • Doug Belshaw
     • Lawrence Lessig
     • Creative Commons

     @luis_in_brief @creativecommons @dajb I think CC0 was only created 10 years into CC's existence because @lessig is an academic, and giving credit (i.e., any CC license with BY) is an absolute scholarly value.
     Which makes academia's embrace of genAI really weird to me, since it is based on the work of others w/o giving any credit. Why don't academics just viscerally reject genAI for that reason? Is it because this violation of a basic academic norm is happening "at scale"?

     #AI #AIethics

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 15:12:57 JST Luis Villa

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     • Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

     A great question by @deborahh ("how to search open images?") with a great answer: https://openverse.org, Wordpress's open-image search site.

     Update: Apparently the Getty is not yet accessible via Openverse, but they have an API, so it should be doable if someone wants a new hacking project! https://github.com/WordPress/openverse/issues/3893

     https://mstdn.ca/@deborahh/112067499336274016

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 15:12:59 JST Luis Villa

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     Lovely find by @deco from that collection! https://defcon.social/@deco/112063913667721059

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 15:13:46 JST Luis Villa

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     • Jessamyn

     @jessamyn getting licensing “correct” at that level is… a nightmare. And quickly faces diminishing returns.

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 15:13:47 JST Jessamyn

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     @luis_in_brief I've finally found some time to look through it. One of my little projects is always checking "Oh hey are there some newly CC-0 licensed images which can go in Wikipedia?"

     Amusingly, some of those images are already IN Wikipedia because while Getty may own a print image, for example, the work itself was created by the government (PD) so it's got different free licenses different places.

     https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109AY8
     https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017779505/

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 15:13:58 JST Jessamyn

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     @luis_in_brief I've been editing Wikipedia for nearly 20 years and I learn about Wikidata games TODAY?! 😍

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 15:14:00 JST Luis Villa

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     • Magnus Manske

     @jessamyn I do wonder if there’s a spot for something like the Wikidata games for matching these CC0 images with Wikidata records (and eventually articles)? cc @magnusmanske

     https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/

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