On 09/10/2007, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/10/2007, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The problem is that most of the groups that might
be interested in
that sense are well traditional. Online marketers already understand
the web to a degree and even wikipedia to a degree but how would you
go about explaining it to a local history group?
The fact that Wikipedia (at least en:wp) is pretty much mainstream -
news stories now tend to be about something happening on Wikipedia,
rather than the mere dancing-bear fact of its existence - actually
works for us to a great extent. "Release your stuff! If you hate
Wikipedia, it's still available for Citizendium." etc.
Those stories are still in the IT/technology section.
While the 1%
rule doesn't hold for wikipedia to the same extent as
other projects it is still a major hurdle to overcome and even harder
to overcome in the case of those with more traditional ideas of
information flow. Markets at least already think in terms of trying to
get information to as many people as possible. The traditional
gatekeepers of information?
This is why getting those people to think of releasing material as
proper free content (rather than free-as-in-beer, the equivalent of
CC-by-nc-nd) would be such a win. Corruption from within with the FREE
virus!
This involves getting the average person to think about copyright. Not
really going to work.
Getting them to help with access to PD stuff is more reasonable but
well lets have a look at some of the traditional groups:
Local Libraries. Getting better more of them have scanners. But then
they put them on a different floor to the archives. A start I suppose.
The British library. Waste of time. Insist on doing any scanning
themselves and charge a fortune.
Imperial war museum. Same as the British library.
British museum. If it is on display fine otherwise well. You might be
able to take photos of some stuff in the reserve collect by
appointment but anything else you have to pay them to take a photo
which they release to you under a very limited license.
National trust. If you want to take photos inside you have to contact
the one person who appears to have permission to allow that and they
don't appear to be set up to deal with anyone below the level of a
film company.
English Heritage helpful but a lot of the collections that would be
useful appear to have been broken up and spread around the country.
The owners of Conditionally Exempt Works of Art only have to allow
viewing not photography:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/heritage/rights.htm
University libraries vary.
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geni