[WikiEN-l] New York Times: Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People

[Michael Peel]

Interesting. I've had emails from the BBC in the past asking to reuse  
images I've taken and uploaded to Commons (to which I replied saying  
yes), but I haven't seen them actually using them yet. Perhaps this  
explains why.

Mike

On 25 Aug 2009, at 19:11, Andrew Turvey wrote:

> I had an interesting conversation with a senior BBC exec on this  
> the other day. Apparently, their lawyers aren't sufficiently  
> comfortable with the copyright violation checking on Wikimedia  
> Commons to be able to rely on free photographs, so they don't use  
> them. Bizarrely they'd rather pay someone for an image, and hence  
> be able to sue them if they had copyright problems, than get it for  
> free.
>
> Which brings to mind an interesting business proposition.....
>
> :)
>
> ----- "geni" <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: "geni" <geniice at gmail.com>
>> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 17:33:38 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain,  
>> Ireland, Portugal
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New York Times: Wikipedia to Limit Changes  
>> to Articles on People
>>
>> 2009/8/25 FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>:
>>> Note for Jimbo - we need new free pics of you.
>>>
>>> FT2
>>
>> There are better free pics but BBC sticks to Getty for the most part.
>> -- 
>> geni
>>
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