When structured data becomes available on Wikimedia Commons, it will be possible to store copyright-related information about media files in a structured and machine-readable way as well.
Community liaisons assist in the community conversation about the process of translating the information in current license and copyright templates to structured data.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | Keegan | T182674 [Epic] Facilitate community conversations around structured licenses and structured data about copyright statuses of media files on Wikimedia Commons | |||
| Resolved | Keegan | T188946 High-level discussion for the direction of structured licensing | |||
| Resolved | Keegan | T201204 Discuss a mock-up of displaying a structured license statement from Wikidata on Commons | |||
| Resolved | Keegan | T215180 Publish licensing mockups for Captions |
I will work out the details of this ask this week and into next. We'll be running a consultation related to this topic in March, but it needs scoped, narrowed, and defined.
I was alerted to the fact that Creative Commons has been working on a RDF representation of its licenses - CC REL, The Creative Commons Rights Expression Language. I think it can be very inspirational for our own modelling on Wikidata.
General info: https://creativecommons.org/ns
For more extensive background/rationale, see chapter 10 of this book: https://www.communia-association.org/wp-content/uploads/the_digital_public_domain.pdf
One consideration might be that the Rightstatements.org community (http://rightsstatements.org/en/) is looking for a reasonable way to modify the need for license like http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en which are domain specific. Instead they would like a general "No Copyright based on X rationale". Perhaps an important stakeholder in this work is the Rightstatements community?
Copyright modeling and discussions/edits are taking place and have taken place, but without organized formalities from the WMF end. Copyright modeling choices are up to the community.