Wikimedians rarely get excited about volunteering to help GLAMs that
want to lock up high resolution media behind a paywall. It's fine to
charge correctly and openly for reprographic fees, but as we commonly
see, when the GLAM relies on misunderstanding of copyright so that
teachers and academics part with hard-won funding to be able to use or
republish the public domain images or texts, then we are straying into
supporting unethical behaviour.
I would rather see Wikimedia affiliates helping to educate those
institutions with case studies and advice on how to encourage
attribution as the best quality source, along with persistence of
metadata, rather than offering our volunteer time and charitable money
to help them continue to lock up the best information, and often
public assets, behind arbitrary paywalls.
If an institution is putting you in that position, make the case
clear, but be fully prepared to simply walk away if their corporate
objectives remain in conflict with our open knowledge and free access
values.
Thanks,
Fae
On 23 May 2017 at 13:46, Jean-Frédéric <jeanfrederic.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
There is an essay on Wikimedia Commons discussing this topic :
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Why_we_need_high_resolution_media>
Hope that helps,
--
Jean-Frédéric
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