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Bernd: Imagine a world where the sum of
all knowledge is accessible for anyone.
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Knowledge is being presented in so many
different ways, some of it is text, and
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you can easily access and skim through it,
some of it you have to see and some of it
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you have to touch and experience. We're
having this remote experience today. Right
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now, I'd love to be in Leipzig with you,
work together with you. But we can't
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because times are crazy and the digital
world at least makes it possible to gain
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knowledge in a different way. And of
course, we at Wikimedia Deutschland, we
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see that and we try to provide good
content for everyone. We try to help the
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community of the wiki-sphere, of the
wikiversum, like in the Wikidata community
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and the Wikipedia community or Wikimedia
Commons and so many more projects, to
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access great sources to make it work in
different contexts. To be able to remix
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knowledge, to put it to good use and to
reach an audience worldwide. It's been 20
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years now and Wikipedia has started
without much photos, and there is even a
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debate going on whether photos and images
are a good for the Wikipedia because text
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you can easily edit and anyone can do it.
But photos and videos, there's a whole
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different approach and there's a whole
more skills to or other sets of skills to
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be able to access and to edit it. And that
makes it harder to renew stuff and to
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adapt it. But also to create it and the
communities and the volunteers in the
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wikisphere, they are sometimes having a
hard time to get good CGIs, for example,
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or to get good graphics to make those, to
make beautiful articles and to make good
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shows. They are not always available. It
costs money. The studio, the equipment and
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the graphics they are producing. And
there's already a lot of money spent on
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producing that kind of content, and we
want to bring that to good use in
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Wikipedia and in the other spheres. We
have been reaching out or we have been
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approached by the community to reach out
to the public broadcasters. And that's
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what we did. And this is our journey. And
I want to go on this together with you, a
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little bit of recap and then a way of you
to help us with that mission and to also
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reach out and bring good content into the
public sphere to really be able to help
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others, to help educators in these crazy
times. And, yeah, together make the sum of
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all knowledge available to anyone in
different ways. Not only text, but also
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videos like this one. So the talk is
called "Public service, public value", and
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that subline is "When Stars Collide".
There's a reason for that. You know, I
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could talk now about how stars are going
around each other and they attract each
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other and then they come together and
there's a bang and sometimes there's a
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neutron star and shooting all kinds of
crazy stuff out of it, which we can then
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measure here on earth. I could also show
you this video, and I think the video
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provided here, it was NASA content, would
be a much better way to approach this
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knowledge. And the beautiful thing about
this, not only because it's good stuff
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coming out of it and which matches the
talk, but also that the NASA content is
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not copyright protected, most of it,
because it's provided by a federal agency
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and there is the US copyright law. But
also the ESA, the European Space Agency,
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it also now provides content under a
public, under an open license, which can
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be adapted. So we had a big publicly
funded agency, the ESA, which produced
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good content, scientific content, which
could be used to or could be put to good
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use. And they decided to adapt Creative
Commons licensing to adapt open licenses,
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so that people could do good stuff with
it. And that's what we wanted the public
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broadcasters to do as well, which was not
an easy task. But we had great experiences
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and cooperations and we're working together
now really good. The public broadcasters
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in Germany are having a budget of about
eight billion euros per annum, and they
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make content available online. Well, you
can access it. You can't really download
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most of it. You cannot remix it, which is
a problem for educators because remix is
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like a standard case, everyday case for
teachers. I used to be a teacher. I took
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screenshots, put them on papers and built
little quizzes out of old stuff or not
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used a whole broadcast, but parts of it.
And that's not really how I can use public
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broadcast most of the time, because it has
all rights reserved and I can just use it
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in a noncommercial manner. And there lies
the first problem. What is noncommercial?
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When I'm teaching in a public school, ok.
But when I'm teaching in the afternoon
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to in kind of overtime paid by the hour to
help a student privately or when I'm having
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a blog or a website and there's
advertisements on that to pay the fees for
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the hosting. Is this or do I then monetize
the content or if there's a private
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partnership and the sponsoring there of
putting it in student paper and publishing
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it and then selling the student paper
because they're printing stuff costs, is
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this then monetarized? Is this commercial,
is it not? So there's a whole can of worms
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right there. So the content that's
provided by the public broadcasters bottom
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line is not usable for anyday use and not
usable for Wikipedia, at least not for
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remix and republishing issues. That's
bad. And that's especially when there's
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8 billion euros every year going into those
public broadcasters. That should be
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something we should engage in. Now we
approach them, and in most cases, when you
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approach the lawyers of the public
broadcasters, they say, well, we'd like if
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you use that content, but if you are
asking me for permission to use that
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content in that specific context, I have
to say no. If you are, if you ask me, I
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have to say no. And this is a bullshit
situation right there. I mean, you have
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someone who provides good, nonfictional
content, which should be used for
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educational use. He wants it to be used in
that way. There's an educator who wants to
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use it in that way. But we can't come
together because of licensing policies.
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And now it's legally right, but it still
feels wrong. And we could, other than
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piracy, we can do something about it. I
mean, the content. The public broadcasters
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provide their editorially independent, so
they may be publicly funded, but the
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politics stay out of way of the editorial
process. So there may be some in the
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supervisory boards. And there's as a whole
debate going on about that in Germany, for
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example. But the editors are free and
there's good content produced and content
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you can trust on. Content where there's a
whole set of producers behind it who fact
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check and who, if they make a mistake,
make it right again. The public
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broadcasters are not for profit. And they
want to provide public content as they
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call it a public value. And I think we can
help with that. We have this beautiful big
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platform where anyone who's searching for
information lands at some point, whether
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he's approaching it via speech assistance,
which is then asking Wikipedia or Wikidata
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for information, or whether he just puts
it into a search box and then finds it and
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accesses, for example, the text in
Wikipedia. The content can be reused in
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all kinds of manners because it is public,
it is openly licensed. Most likely...
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there's a whole range of licenses you can
choose, we choose the most open licenses
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for Wikipedia. That's a community
decision. CC-BY, CC-SA or even CC0. I
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won't go too deep into that. But you just
have to remember, you can use that
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content, you can remix it, you can put it
into another content. You always have to
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name the source of it. If it's not zero,
you always have to name the source. And if
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you edit it, you have to make that
visible. Yeah, but the content provided by
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the public broadcasters in this case, the
ARD which is a public broadcaster in
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Germany, is, of course, provided with all
rights reserved. So you can't do a lot with
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it. You can access it still. It's good
stuff. And there's a lot of years in the
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mediathek in the end, and YouTube and
stuff. But there is potential. I'll show
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you why. We had a campaign then, it was
called public money, public content. You
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may see where this is coming from. And we
approached the public broadcasters to work
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together on this. This was the same
argument I just made here to you. In every
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step of the way, we worked together with
the community and with the awesome people
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of Wiki loves broadcast. And we are...
I'll come back to that in a minute... so
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first, some public broadcasters in this
case funk, which is a cooperation between
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the two big public broadcasters in
Germany. They are for producing content
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for young people and younger audiences and
they try to like summarize Wikipedia
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pages, which is a problem for the
community, because I say, well, it's nice
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if you summarize it, but if the article
changes, can we then change the video? No,
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video editing is more expensive and you
have to have certain programs for that and
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skills that fewer people have. So there's
a smaller community to do it. So that's
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not content we really can use in
Wikipedia. Although the videos were quite
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high quality, they were rejected by the
Wikipedia community. We came together in
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best faith, but this just didn't work out
as it sometimes does. Next try was to
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provide pictures of people. In this case,
there was reportage, a portrait of an
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actor or actress in this case. And they
put that in Wikimedia Commons so that it
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could be used, for example on Wikipedia
and it was used in several pages and also
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on pages all over the Internet, always
with a little mark that the content was
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provided by the public broadcaster, which
is fine. But community or some community
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members said, well, this photo is well too
good to be publicly licensed, so there's a
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whole other can of worms and another
problem right there. We overcame that with
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a great pilot project, which I want to
talk about right now. And if you're
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listening in a public broadcaster working
together with public broadcasting
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somewhere in the world, you should now be
very interested. Because what we achieved
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here is openly licensed content being
reused on all sorts of sites. We cannot
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track everything, but we can track what we
already did, like in the mediathek, in the
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channels of the ZDF and on the YouTube
channels and stuff. We can see how often
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this content was approached and was
used. We can track how much it was used in
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Wikipedia and how often it was clicked on.
And we can guess because it has been
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published as well because provided under
free and open license on Schulserver and
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stuff like that - so on networks for
schools and on servers that provide
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educational content. And we can see that
it's being adapted there and that the
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communities, the educational community
really wants to do things with it and is
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putting it to good use. How much? Come to
that in a minute. First, the ZDF started
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with climate and environmentally connected
content and provided a material from there.
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So they came together with the producers,
the editors, with everyone involved
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in the process, and they
said - in cooperation with us, we also
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gave some hints maybe: We cannot give the
whole episode of takes, which is big,
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beautiful and very expensive and has a lot
of third party content into the public
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domain or into licenses openly. It's just
too expensive and not really... we cannot
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really do that. But there is
some content inside these episodes which
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is built or which is produced completely
in-house, which we can target and which we
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can buy the licenses for without straining
our budget too much. So videos, CGIs,
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short pieces that are being produced
anyway. They just have to be licensed
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under a CC license as well and then uploaded
to Wikimedia Commons. So this was the
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way to go for the ZDF and for the TerraX
team. And they did it and they put a lot
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of videos there, which was then adopted by
the community, the Wikipedia community. So
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the ZDF didn't do any editing in the
Wikipedia, they just gave their input,
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their content to the Commons, and then
there was good stuff happening by the
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community. They adapted it and put it into
mostly German speaking because, of course,
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it's German videos, German speaking
Wikipedia, German language Wikipedia
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articles, also some English Wikipedia
articles. But there was also another
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beautiful thing happening, as you can see
right here. They also did, they started to
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do read-ups because they saw it's good,
it's high quality content. We can build
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upon that. We can remix it and we can read
of it in Dutch, in Welsh, in Esperanto,
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and we can put subtitles on there in Latin
and in Dutch and Catalan and in Spanish.
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So. This content is now free and is
evolving, and it's good, high quality,
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nonfictional, mostly scientific content
that helps the Wikipedia communities to
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further reach their audience, to help
provide knowledge to everyone, even if
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you're maybe visually impaired or mentally
impaired or you just don't want to read
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a long text right now because your head is
buzzing and there's not enough coffee in
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the world. And you can just watch a video
to maybe grasp the idea of this specific
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article or this paragraph there a little
better. It's another way of providing
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information and it works together like a
charm. And we can see that also by the
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numbers on which those files are
approached, so we tried first to do a page
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view analysis, so we took all the content
we monitored: In which sites is the content
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implemented in or embedded in? And then
tried to measure the viewership of the
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pages, which didn't really work, because
there was - and now it's over - 120 files
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and we cannot really reproduce that. And
we also tried to do a media view counter,
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which also then strained at some point -
it exceeded the limitations of the tools
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we were having to measure that as soon as
the files were too many. So we could like
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add a direct comparison of files, how
they're performing, how they're doing, but
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we couldn't really track all of them. So
then a great colleague of mine, he built
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this beautiful mediaviews too, so that you
can really monitor a whole category. So we
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can now monitor how often the files in the
category of TerraX provided videos - you
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see the shot links right there,
bit.ly/terrax30 - the last 30 days of his
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of TerraX content from Wikipedia Commons.
And we can see a monthly usage of over a
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million views, which is a lot. Because
this is not just someone randomly browsing
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and finding this video and it's auto
play. But searching for information on a
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topic like as Taj Mahal or like the Harbor
of Carthago or something like that. Or
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covid vaccine. And then they're clicking
on the article, they're clicking on the
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video and view it and this is a very
qualified account right there. And this
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happens over a million times with content
that the ZDF has provided now. Every
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month. And still growing. And that's good
in several ways. First, it's great for the
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community because they can more easily
reach the audience and they can help the
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audience understand the topic better. It
makes Wikipedia more beautiful for the
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audience. Of course. We just talked about
that. And also for the content provider
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because, of course, the content is
branded. There's a little logo in there
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and it's called "video is provided by
TerraX". I have stated the brand a few
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times now. And of course, anyone who uses
it has to quote the ZDF and give
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attribution, which is good for the brand
and it makes it more likely that at some
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other point when you're searching for
information on the topic, you'll be
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circling back to TerraX, for example,
and hopefully to Wikipedia. But there's
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more. We have done some high level
roundtables where we brought together
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unions, teachers unions, as well as
journalist unions, as well as young
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journalists, people who work in research
and universities, library organizations
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and, of course, the Wikipedia community,
to see how we better can work together and
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what we can do and how we can monitor it
and what is likely to be done and what
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not. Because, of course, also the public
broadcasters have wishes for the community
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and for Wikimedia Deutschland and as well
as the other way around. Our main
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arguments here are that it improves the
public good. It saves taxes. If schools,
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public schools don't have to buy
additional video content, for example, but
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can use the content that is already
publicly funded for free. It strengthens
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the cooperation between different spheres
of making knowledge available. And it's
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further helping them reaching the audience
on exactly the platforms that they're
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searching for on, that they're searching
for information on. So, as I said, our
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campaign was called "public money, public
good". And there were some reactions and
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we had some great cooperations coming up
then. At this point I have to thank all
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the stakeholders as a part of the
campaign. Not only the Chaos Communication
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Club, Chaos Computer Club, but also the
libraries association, the teachers
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associations in Germany and Kiron
University and some others that you can
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see there. If you're a stakeholder on an
international level and want to join this
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claim for more content provided by the
public broadcasters, reach out to me,
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bernd.fiedler@wikimedia.de, and we can
talk about it or maybe after that in the
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Q&A. So we wrote a lot of letters. There
were 10000 little postcards being sent to
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the public broadcasters where anyone could
put a little comment. I want to use that,
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because ... And there were a lot of
educators, teachers and knowledge workers
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who reached out to us and said, finally, I
want to use or have used in a limited way
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the content already. And there's so much
more and so much better stuff I want to do
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with it. I want to screenshot it and put
it on the paper and then build a Quiz out
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of it, whatever. And there are the
limitations of copyright and the Creative
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Commons licensing makes it easier for me.
Also, the idea is a second... or another
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really big public broadcaster in Germany
also tried to adapt Creative Commons
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licensing. They did, even with their most
important broadcasts like Tagesschau,
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which is the news broadcast for every German.
They are providing graphics and short
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videos under a Creative Commons NC ND and
so none for commercial and no variations
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of stuff. So at least it is available
indefinitely now. So it can be linked upon
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and it can be used in certain ways,
especially in schools. But you cannot
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release it in a Wikipedia right now. They
also put some podcasts like the
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coronavirus update, which is like one of
the most listened to podcasts right now, a
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scientific podcast here in Germany under
CC license, which is also a great step.
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And there's a reason why they are hesitant
to put content under a more open license,
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not only because of licensing issues and
because of the money you have to pay for
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it, but also in fear of... there's some
uses they don't want. In our experience,
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though, we see that on the ZDF content.
There's a lot of good stuff happening with
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it. And none of the fears were matched,
none of the fears really came true. There
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are adaptations and there are read-ups,
but they are good. They are in the way we
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would have wanted it. And sometimes you
just have to take a leap of faith and see
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good stuff happening. Right. As of right
now, so licensing policies and the public
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broadcasters, they make... so the bad
stuff is happening anyway, people will
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steal it, will adapt it, will put little
horns on people's heads and whatever, and
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they don't really care about copyright,
which also would not be possible with
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Creative Commons, because there's
limitations to that licensing given with
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Creative Commons and putting it in a
context where it's not right is one of
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those limitations. But whatever. But
Creative Commons makes the uses you want
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to give, you want to make possible,
available. And that's all very much
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cheaply. And there will be stuff coming
out from the idea, I hope. As of now,
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there is the chair of the ARD, of the big
public broadcast in Germany, and they say
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it's a cornerstone. It's an important
building block on which where, how to make
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our content available indefinitely as
possible and easily accessible as
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possible. Even this press release, though,
you see on the photo right there, there's
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all rights reserved. This is copyrighted
content, which I quote here. So way to go.
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But there's good stuff. There's good
faith. I have good faith. And there's a
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lot of goodwill on all institutions. And
we're working together to that common
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goal. There's also a global task force of
public broadcasters and they're saying: We
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share the common duty to inform, educate
and entertain. The engagement with
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audiences of all ages across all ranges of
broadcast and online services is critical
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to our success in serving them whenever,
wherever and however they want. And to
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reach that, dear public broadcasters all
around the world, whether you're the NPR,
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the NHK, the PBS, the BBC, the RAA, CBC,
EBC or ORF.. Your content should be freely
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licensed, wherever possible. It should be
paid fairly. It should be accessible
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everywhere and it should be accessible any
time. And then we can build upon it. And
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there's all kinds of good stuff shooting
out of it. And we can measure that now.
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So our mission is clear. And there's a lot
of good people working together on all sides
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to make it possible, and I have to thank
all the partners that we have been doing
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great stuff up until now and will be doing
great stuff in the years to come. And the
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community, who is open for adapting the
content and putting it to good use on
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different Wikipedia pages. And if you're a
public broadcaster and you think, well, I
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want that, I want a part of that. Feel
free to reach out to us and we will make
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and bring this thing international. Our
arguments condensed are there at
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bit.ly/publicbroadcast on the medium block
of the Wikimedia Foundation where we're
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trying to commodate this whole talk into a
few paragraphs. Thank you for listening,
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for attending this session here. And I'm
very happy to take your questions now. And
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to gather, free, more great content to
build amazing stuff out of it.
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Thank you very much.
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Herald: We are now connected to our
speaker remotely. Not by satellite, just
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like the usual public broadcasting studios
do, but via Internet, because we are
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modern. With Bernd Fiedler, who is our
correspondent today, more or less. Hello
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Bernd, how are you today?
Bernd: Hello. I'm fine, and I hope you all
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as well. You've heard a lot and I hope you
have some questions for me.
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Herald: We're still waiting for questions.
You can still ask them by the IRC or
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Twitter with the hashtag #rC3Wikipaka.
We're listening to all of them and will
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relay them to our speaker here. You had an
interesting slide at the end of your talk,
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towards the end of your talk, with Tom
Buhrow, who was stating something along
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the lines of "CC licenses are an important
part of what the public broadcasting
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institutions in Germany are doing." And at
the very bottom right - you made me aware
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of that, I didn't even see it first -
there was an "all rights reserved" clause.
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That looks to me like there is a cultural,
cultural obstacles still to be surmounted,
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to be surpassed. Is there any hope that
this cultural change is taking place?
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Bernd: Yes.
Herald: OK, but it wasn't OK. How would
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you say this?
Bernd: Well, it's really not easy. They
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are buying licenses and then they can do
limited stuff with it, and they now have a
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lot of contracts, and if you have a big
ship like, the ARD or the ZDF, you have
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all kinds of standard contracts. And you
have to change those first before you can
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do anything. So that's a chicken and egg
problem. They also say we can't because they
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are not, the contracts are not there. So I
can't waive any rights. And the public
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broadcasters say, well, they also wouldn't
agree to it. So we don't have the
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contracts yet. But there's a big cultural
change going on right now. That's a lot of
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effort and a lot of editors, a lot of
content creators who want to try out
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stuff, who are reaching out to us. But it
takes time, because it's a big wheel we're
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trying to turn here and big wheels take
time to start turning.
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Herald: Well, 2020 has taught us to be
patient and wait for changes, but there
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might be some people in the audience who
don't want to wait. And what you told me
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about these standard contracts sounds
awfully familiar for people who work with
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public administrations, who are facing
similar problems with subcontractors and
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people they depend upon. And one way that
has been shown in that realm would be to
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provide boilerplate licenses that the
institutions can actually use and reuse.
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Has anybody tried that?
Bernd: Yeah, well, they are using Creative
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Commons right now, but... I think - what
exactly do you mean with boilerplate
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licenses?
Herald: Yeah, of course. I mean, Creative
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Commons is, of course, a boilerplate
license for sublicensing. But you told me
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about, as far as I understand, that the
public broadcasting institutions use
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subcontractors to actually produce their
content. And they would have to enter
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contracts and new licenses that permit
sublicensing under Creative Commons
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clauses. So if somebody, let's say
Wikimedia or some other instance, were to
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provide the public broadcasters with
boilerplate licenses for their
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subcontractors, wouldn't that be an
option?
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Bernd: Uh, if we...
Herald: Not to want you to drop the hot
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potato in your lap, but...
Bernd: We can't look that far into the
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contract business of the public
broadcasters and their subcontractors. But
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this is exactly what we had with TerraX in
the end. So they have, they are having
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subcontractors. And at the very beginning
of the process, of the broadcasting
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process and production process, they said,
well, let's try this and we will take some
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stuff and release it under creative
comments. Are you all right with that? In
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an ongoing production and most contracts
are already set and you always go back to
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the same contractor - you can't really do
that. That's, that's hard. You just, you
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need an outside impulse for that. And
that's where the audience comes into play,
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because I bet all of you have a loved
podcast or some broadcast that you see at
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the public broadcasters and you want
to bring to the Commons or content you
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want to bring to the Commons. And of
course, you can reach out as it is a
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broadcaster. You can reach out to the
Redaktion and say, we want to do that and
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we want to see that in the Commons. Why
isn't it? And then they have to ask the
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legal people and the legal people then
sometimes consult with us and then we can
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try to do something. So it's big wheels,
but many, many small angles where you can
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attack.
Herald: That sounds like a call to action
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for me. People who are watching right now
are listening right now. Where would they
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direct such a question? Would they add ZDF
or add ARDPresse or whatever on Twitter,
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or is there any way that is more
impactful? Maybe send a fax or something
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like that?
Bernd: You know what? Do that right now,
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during this Q&A, you can add ARDPresse or
ZDF to do just that. And there are people
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there watching that and watching it. And
the more impulses there are, the more
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likely they will be moving. But also a
standard email. They operate like every
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Programmbeschwerde, every input from audiences
is being read at the public broadcasters
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offices. So just type an email and say, I
love your content. Why isn't it Creative
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Commons? Cheers, and there you go. This
helps us a lot. And it helps the people
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inside the houses, inside the public
broadcasters who really want get things
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going. But there are also the ones who
say: We don't really need to change that,
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do we? But you and us, we have to show
them that the future lies in Creative
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Commons licensing and not just getting on
with not providing open content and
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deleting stuff that is good and that could
have been reused if only it would have
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been licensed correctly.
Herald: OK, so we are not screaming into
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the void, but we have allies within the
broadcasting authorities that really want
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our help, actually, is that true?
Bernd: It is. And there are a lot of
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people doing the hard work. I mean, my job
is easy. I'm sitting at the outside and
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saying, why don't you, why couldn't you,
oh that would be a good idea. And they are
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confronted with all the people who know
the ifs and whens and who always say "no,
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because" and they're finding reasons why
this shouldn't be possible. But we are now
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going on from the production level because
the content providers, they want their
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products and their content to be remixed.
We also gain from the political level
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because that's important for the public
broadcasters, obviously. And we are going
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on from the Intendanten, so from the chair
level. I mean, everyone working at the ARD
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and the ZDF, there is a little bit... if
they try something new, they can fail and
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they can get smacked over the head with
people who are angry at them. Because
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there are so many angry people out there who
attack the broadcasters all the time. And
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if they see that it works at one public
broadcaster, like at the ZDF, it's very much
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more likely that another public
broadcaster will also try. That's a trial,
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that course of action.
Herald: Well, this is...
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Bernd: a little bit "Beamtenmikado"
Herald: That's very close to your heart
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because, I mean, we do have our WTFalpha
night program and we would have loved to
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include Bernd das Brot in that. So for all
the people who are right now composing
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tweets at ZDF...
Bernd: copyrighted...
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Herald: Well, maybe in the future and
maybe we're depending on all the people
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composing tweets right now at ZDF, for all
the activists who do have experience with
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mass mailing members of parliament, they
actually know that mass mails that follow
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a template are, well, not as not as
impactful as individual letters. So is it
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a detriment if they include in the in
their tweet, the ÖGÖG hashtag or any other
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campaign mode?
Bernd: the German slogan for "public
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money, public content" - "öffentliches
Geld, öffentliches Gut", ÖGÖG. Yeah, well,
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you can do that. So we can we can monitor
it a little bit and see who else is
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interested in that. You can also reach out
to the Wiki loves broadcast group in
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Wikipedia. They're a group of activists
who have experience in that and who are
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standing by to help public broadcasters
understand the Wikipedia and to see
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whether and where the content fits. So
there's a lot of ways to engage in that.
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And if you have ideas for that or just
questions, you can reach out to me any
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time. You have my address. That's
mediumarticle@wikimediafoundation or you
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can just write me
bernd.fiedler@wikimedia.de. And yeah, I'm
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happy to help. Yes, that's good stuff. We
want to have it in the public domain.
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Let's make it possible together. I need
help.
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Herald: That sounds like a call to action
in the background chat that we have
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before we went live, you mentioned
something about big, did you say the big
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gulf of material that's already been
produced and is in the kind of legal
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limbo, that it's not so easily released
right now. Can you talk a little bit more
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about that?
Bernd: I think I misunderstood the
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question of the...
Herald: I mean, we have a similar
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situation in the United States with the
works that have been published after the
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1920s, where copyright law has been made
more stringent and original creators can't
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be contacted anymore.
Bernd: Yeah, we have two courses of action
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that the public broadcasters are trying
right now. I mean, if you if you're
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sitting on a treasure box, you want to
open it up and share it. If it doesn't get
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less, that's where... so the idea is
trying to provide content that they
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already have produced, but clearing the
rights for that stuff that's already is
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produced is a pain in the ass. And it's
really hard and sometimes impossible to
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reach every creator who was connected with
a production. So everything that's in the
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past is kind of lost for our goal for
Creative Commons license, especially stuff
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that's being produced and that has been
released after 1970 or so. So they are
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opening up the archives and that's really
a treasure for Wikipedia. They can then
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link to it and they can at least access it
indefinitely. But the other course of
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action seems to me much more sustainable -
to see in which new productions from now
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on we can implement Creative Commons
licensing and so that we can only look and
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walk into the future here. Although I'd
love to see all the good stuff I've been
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seeing on the air already, too, to become
Creative Commons, but that's really hard.
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Herald: Well, not to end on a dystopic
note, but to go forth with the utopias,
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there is a way to to open at least the
future releases. And you've shown
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us how to do that. And we thank you. I
mean, we are the unofficial public
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broadcasting cosplay channel at rC3. So
anybody who's interested in having more
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interesting night program for future
programing, please contact Bernd. Bernd,
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thanks again so much for being on air
right now with us and keep up the good
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fight in the name of the love of public
broadcasting.
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Bernd: I'm counting on you. See you soon.
Herald: See you, bye Bernd!
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