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@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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