[Commons-l] Wikimedia as stock photo source

Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 22 00:11:42 UTC 2009


The "EU Observer" web newspaper seems to be a regular re-user of Wikimedia images. From their current edition of stories: 

http://euobserver.com/9/28853 
http://euobserver.com/7/28767 
http://euobserver.com/7/28830 
http://euobserver.com/7/28668 
http://euobserver.com/13/28677 
http://euobserver.com/22/28824 

All marked (credit:Wikipedia), no link or mention of license. 

----- "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote: 
> From: "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> 
> To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 October, 2009 15:14:02 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: [Commons-l] Wikimedia as stock photo source 
> 
> Is anyone keeping track of these? 
> 
> http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Police-Man-didnt-get-gun-used-pliers-instead/Eyp1QAdMXUOMiwlVU1AcXg.cspx 
> 
> Not perfect - credit but no licence - but far better than nothing! 
> 
> This is interesting to me because it's just a plain stock photo being 
> used as illustration for design purposes. 
> 
> 
> - d. 
> 
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