So, we have the following options:

1. Ignore them (pity)
2. Upload them as public domain and re-iterate the National Portrait Gallery issue, and teach them that these open content wiki people are not to be trusted
3. Label them CC-BY so the Wellcome Trust can get a mandatory attribution, which we would do anyway

Personally, I'd go for #3. CC-BY is just one small step up from PD, so I really don't see the practical harm.

(Disclaimer: I am paid by the Wellcome Trust, though indirectly via a research institute, and nowhere near the image division;-)

Cheers,
Magnus



On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Christoph Braun <christoph.braun.de@gmail.com> wrote:
Our stance on copyright is that digital reproductions of public domain 2D source material is in the public domain, even if your laughable jurisdiction says otherwise.

Regards, Christoph

[2] Straw poll, changing our policy on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag/Straw_Poll


2014/1/21 Edward Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
I was thinking it would be AmazonTurk-able, but that’s neat there is a service for it. Around $140.00 wouldn’t be a terrible price to pay. Still, it would be nice to avoid it, and have Wellcome be a partner in the effort.

What is “our stance on copyright”?

//Ed

On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:24 AM, Christoph Braun <christoph.braun.de@gmail.com> wrote:

> There are plenty of services out there offering to solve captchas for reasonable prices. Here's one of them: http://www.deathbycaptcha.com/
> Then again I think it might be more useful to approach the Wellcome Library, both for getting easier access to their collection and informing them about our stance on copyright.
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> Regards, Christoph
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> 2014/1/21 Edward Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
> I imagine some of you may have seen that the Wellcome Library announced yesterday [1]  that they have made over 100,000 high resolution images of manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography, and advertisements available using a CC-BY license. I was wondering [2] if it is ok to upload CC-BY images to the Commons.
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> This is mostly in theory since the downloads are sitting behind reCAPTCHAs and several levels of click throughs — but you never know :-)
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> //Ed
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> [1] http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-culture-made-free-through-wellcome-images/
> [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Can_I_upload_CC-BY_images.3F
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