Given the identity of the requester and the size of the work, it is
possible that these images be used in a reasonably important book. I
think that we should not hesitate to go extra lengths to accommodate
such customers, because
1) they provide us a de facto advertisement
1a) the advertisement is backed by scholarly authority
1b) the advertisement goes primarily to their fellow scholars
2) the requirements of scholars are in themselves valuable to us.
To illustrate 2) : the requests for extra images to be made at the
Louvre provided me with a list of valuable items to photograph. This
allowed me
- to attempt to take good photographs rather than snapshots.
- to concentrate on significant items rather than remnants of garage
sales of the part centuries.
On 10/25/07, Daniel Schwen <lists(a)schwen.de> wrote:
Can't we ask this publisher for a small insert to
promote Commons as an
exchange!?
With all the money they will save using our pictures, I think it's a
good deal for them.
Maybe they could add an Appendix telling that images
mentioning
Wikimedia Commons are free and can be found at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/ With a summarty of principes more or less
extens depending of the space available?
Hmm, if they use really that many commons pics and every author requested
"Wikimedia Commons" to appear in the credits, then this seems to be enough
promotion. This will surely attract attention of the interested reader. An
extra appendix would be an overstatement of the importance IMO. Do you see
what I'm saying? If the mention of "Wikimedia Commons" among all image
credits doesn't stand out by number then Commons apparently was not an
important source of images. On the other hand if it does appear that often
then the appendix seems unnecessary (maybe an URL would be nice though).
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