Wikinews:Video Wikinews/2.0/Press releases/Wikinews Video releases first few trailer videos

April 21, 2007

Wikinews, a project of the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation, has released it's first two trailer videos for the "Video Wikinews" project. The videos are currently available on Youtube, and Wikimedia Commons, and have been made available under the CC-BY-2.5 license, the same used for the Wikinews project.

The project is being created with the hopes of expanding free content news, and making it available worldwide. The project is intended to be on a television network, although the aforementioned teasers have been placed on several different websites.

In the last few decades, copyright laws have become more restrictive and automatic than ever, and more and more of our culture is now inaccessible. The goal of the Wikinews Video project is to raise awareness for and celebrate news generously released under licenses that allow their free reuse by other artists or projects like Wikinews.

About Wikimedia
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., is a non-profit corporation based in Florida, USA. It was founded in 2003 to maintain and develop free-content projects like Wikipedia, and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge. It is supported primarily by small donations from its broad userbase, and currently has national chapters in Germany and France.

Contact
For questions and further information, please contact the Wikinews Video team:

Email: wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org (subscribe)

More Information: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Video_Wikinews/2.0

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