On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
- Ignore them (pity)
- 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
4. upload them, indicating that Wellcome Trust has labeled them CC-by and add - wherever appropriate - PD-old tags. In the long run, we have to deal anyway with stuff that has been (legitimately) released under cc-by but has later turned into pd-old.
Regarding 3: In most cases, people are willing to attribute the source because of their editorial or community standards.
Mathias