On 04/05/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Please remember that as soon as the organisation "endorses" any person to contribute content to the projects, it puts itself in a "publisher" kind of position, which we need to avoid at all costs, since the organisation is *not* a publisher.
Would it be possible for the WMF to make a deal with an actual publisher? They could, say, give us a press pass in return for us giving them a free license to use the photographs. The St. Petersburg Times is run by a non-profit and is right down the street. Maybe they'd be willing to hook up the WMF with a press pass to use for events they weren't sending anyone to anyway?
Just a thought. I don't know much about how these things work.
That's a pretty good idea, actually. We find the publisher a volunteer who we know is a decent person - just the sort of job for our shiny new Volunteer Coordinator - the volunteer agrees with the publisher that the material will be freely licensed*, the publisher issues accreditation and lets the material flow in (and out).