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Making local lekker - promoting your content in South African languages

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the song you had written in your mother tongue, Zulu, could be distributed with a license written in the same language? Creative Commons South Africa and Translate.org.za recently announced the availability of licenses in Afrikaans, isiZulu and Sesotho sa Leboa.

Says, Dwayne Bailey of Translate.org.za, “For us this was a natural […]

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Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Over the past few months we’ve seen both good and bad ways of running competitions for user-generated content in the South African Internet world.
Exhibit A: Apple South Africa’s ‘GetPodcasting‘ Competition. In March, some eagle-eyed bloggers caught sight of the draconian terms and conditions on the site which didn’t enable people to use other content (for […]