WikiIndaba conference 2019/Submissions/Promoting African Creative Content on Wikis Through Creative Commons Licensing
 | This is an  Accepted submission for WikiIndaba conference 2019 that has been reviewed by the members of the Program Committee and accepted into the conference program |
- Submission no. 031
- Title of the submission
- Promoting African Creative Content on Wikis Through Creative Commons Licensing
- Type of submission (lecture, panel, tutorial/workshop, roundtable discussion, lightning talk, birds of a feather discussion)
- Lightning talk
- Author of the submission
- Language of presentation
- E-mail address
- Username
- Chris Teck Orthoriti
- Country of origin
- Nigeria
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
Dace Law Attorneys and Partners
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)
The African creative industry is booming with lots of creative works and intellectual property focusing on the African society, culture and experiences. Sadly, much of these content are not easily available or visible online and on Wikis, like the Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikisource, WikiNews etc), owing to copyright protection issues. This lecture gives insight on the Creative Commons License which is not popularly used in African content. It focuses on what this licensing is about, and how content producers in African can adopt it in their commercial works, to enable them to easily be published for non commercial use on Wikimedia projects
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- At the end of the session, the audience will learn the importance of the creative commons license, why and how we should encourage its use in our creative industry Africa, to promote greater visibility of African content
- Theme of presentation
- Legal
- For workshops and discussions, what level is the intended audience?
Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
- Length of session (if other than 25 minutes, specify how long)
- Lightning talk
- Will you attend WikiIndaba if your submission is not accepted?
Hopefully I will
- Slides or further information (optional)
- Special requests
None
- Is this Submission a Draft or Final?
Interested attendees
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