Translations:WikiArS/Case studies/44/en
Once the completed animations had been validated by the experts, they were posted on Wikimedia Commons in order to allow their use on Wikipedia and other open-knowledge projects. On the image-description page on Commons, the students posted the names of their advisers they had worked with. They also linked to the repositories where they had found the 3D models used in the animation and credited their authors. Because Commons does not allow Blender's native file format, the source files of the animations were posted on CommonsArchive.org, a repository designed specifically for source formats. The students then linked to this repository from the image-description page. The students’ animations are freely usable because they were created using free models. In addition, because the source files were made available, the animations can be reused by anyone who would like to make a new version. Any such new versions would, in turn, be considered derivative works of the students' animations, and would therefore remain in circulation as works that can be freely recombined. The academic year ended with an open seminar where the students presented their projects to their classmates and to students who would be taking the subject the following year.