http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/24/fotonauts-opens-up-a-little-more-skip-t...
The site is at http://www.fotonauts.com/ . Everything I could see is CC-licensed, including -NC licenses, so tread carefully when copying images.
Their tagline appears to be "The Wikipedia of images." I left a message on the TechCrunch story pointing out that the "Wikipedia of images" is Commons ...
- d.
2008/12/24 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/24/fotonauts-opens-up-a-little-more-skip-t...
The site is at http://www.fotonauts.com/ . Everything I could see is CC-licensed, including -NC licenses, so tread carefully when copying images.
Their tagline appears to be "The Wikipedia of images." I left a message on the TechCrunch story pointing out that the "Wikipedia of images" is Commons ...
- d.
The comparison of commons to Getty however is probably not very helpful. For the average web user commons is competing with Google images (where we tend not to rank very high). For businesses they seem to prefer paid for images under terms that are fairly agreed. That leaves the free content community and the seriously active part of that isn't very big.
A free content license is not what makes wikipedia popular and it will not be what makes commons popular.
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:44 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
For businesses they seem to prefer paid for images under terms that are fairly agreed.
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A free content license is not what makes wikipedia popular and it will not be what makes commons popular.
-- geni
I think this is an excellent point. Something that might make Commons more attractive to contributors as well as potential users: structuring the upload system, templates and page layouts to make it easy to contact contributors (if they wish) to work out licensing terms, or even faciltate some sort of for-pay rights system directly. Of course, a free license would remain a requirement, but many print publications are unwilling either to trust purportedly free content or to abide by copyleft terms. If Commons made it easier to do traditional stock photography-type transactions, this might be a great benefit to other Wikimedia projects as well as to Commons on its own terms.
-Sage (User:Ragesoss)