On 9 September 2017 at 13:27, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 September, Wikimedia Israel, held an event to celebrate its tenth > anniversary. Wikipedians, volunteers, partners, and donors gathered to > celebrate the success they had all participated in making. This is good; congratulations to all involved. However... > - *Oren Helman, former director of the Government Press Office*: as > director of the GPO, Helman assisted in promoting an amendment to copyright > law, by which state photographs were released to free, non-commercial use, > thereby exempting the public from paying for usage of GPO photos. Helman’s > work to release state materials is unique in Israel. Together with former > ministers Michael Eitan and Meir Sheetrit, Mr. Helman heralded a change in > the state of Israel’s attitude toward open content. Material with a "non-commercial use" restriction is not "open content". > the government of Israel made a > precedent-setting decision to release all the photographs on government > websites under Creative Commons licenses. The law amendment was nicknamed > the ‘Wikipedia law’. Which licences? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
