Wikimedia Commons and the Public Space
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Wikimedia Commons
and the public space
A free media repository &
its ties with cities, urban and
architectural heritage.
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Welcome
HOTEL CHARLEROI
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Wikimedia Commons The project.
The history.
The future.
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Wikimedia Commons • Is a online repository of 10,565,695 (counted at 17:21)
o Images
o Sounds
o Videos
o Some other media files
• Under free licenses o GFDL / Creative Commons / etc.
o Public domain
• Allows anyone to contribute
• Were created in September 2004
• Is a project from the Wikimedia Foundation
• Hosts the Wikipedia images content
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Project scope • The aim of Wikimedia Commons is to provide a media
file repository: o that makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media
content to all, and
o that acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia
Foundation.
• The expression “educational” is to be understood
according to its broad meaning of “providing knowledge;
instructional or informative”.
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SCOPE
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The homepage
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Picture description
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The public space How Wikimedia Commons is involved with public space?
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The public space • Is a social space
• Is accessible to all people
• Could be taken in photography
o i.e. you can technically shoot a picture when you’re in the public space
o it doesn’t mean you can publish this picture
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Commons & the public space
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• Cities
• Streets
• Sample picture:
Bermeo harbour
by Andy Roberts
under CC-BY 2.0
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• Transport
• Sample picture:
Tram 54 partant de la
station Charleroi-Sud
by Sébastien Santoro
under CC-BY 3.0
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• Street art
• Sample picture:
Fassade in der Brunnenstraße,
Berlin-Mitte. Gestaltet 2009
von Jean-Remy von Matt.
Photo by Blunt
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• Street culture
(performance, sport,
gangs, music)
• Sample picture:
Fire breathing "Jaipur
Maharaja Brass Band"
Chassepierre Belgium
Photo by Luc Viatour
Under GFDL and CC-BY-SA
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• Architectural inheritance
• Sample picture:
George V bridge
Photo by Croquant
Under GFDL and CC-BY-SA
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• Architectural inheritance
• Sample picture
George V bridge
(Arche 9, rive sud)
Photo by Roland45
Under GFDL and CC-BY-SA
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Actions • Wiki Loves Monuments
a public photography contest
this is a call of participation for the public, both enthusiast
or professional phoitographers
• Projet Monuments Historiques
6110 articles from the French Wikipedia about patrimoine
from France
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Why? • To illustrate the today world
• To allow reuse of this content right now
• To build an archive for the future
• To show public space evolution
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Limitations Our world isn’t perfect
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Public doesn’t mean free • People can ask you WHY you’re taken their streen in
photo
• There are more and more places « photos forbidden »
• In some countries, you can’t take sensible building
pictures.
• Embassy photos could be fun too.
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Copyrighted public space • The architect keeps copyright on the buildings
• This copyright covers also pictures
• French jurisprudence considers all Grimaud panorama is
copyrighted, as it’s all the city were designed as a global
architectural work
• You can also have modern sculptures, fresques or
derivative works from copyrighted stuff.
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Freedom of panorama • Because it’s NORMAL to be allowed to take, use and
publish public space photographies.
• An exception in copyright called freedom of panorama
(FOP)
• OK in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, US, ….
• Not OK in Belgium, France, Italy, …
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Freedom of panorama
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So we have to… • Take all our public space in photo
and publish it under free licenses
• Do lobbying – full FOP everywhere
• Explain to people public space photography isn’t
strange, deviant or evil.
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Thank you Wikimedia Commons and the public space
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