Wellcome Trust CC-BY images - Commons-l

Gerard Meijssen

21 Jan 21 Jan

12:29 p.m.

Hoi, Would it not make more sense to talk to the Welcome Trust ? Thanks, Gerard On 21 January 2014 12:25, Edward Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:

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I imagine some of you may have seen that the Wellcome Library announced yesterday [1] that they have made over 100,000 high resolution images of manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography, and advertisements available using a CC-BY license. I was wondering [2] if it is ok to upload CC-BY images to the Commons. This is mostly in theory since the downloads are sitting behind reCAPTCHAs and several levels of click throughs — but you never know :-) //Ed [1] http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-cultur… [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Can_I_upl… _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Edward Summers

12:44 p.m.

Frederico just pointed me (in IRC) to a vacancy announcement for a Wikipedian in Residence at the Wellcome Trust: https://cancer-research-uk-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre-External/brand-2/candi… So I guess if you are in the UK, looking for 6 months work, and interested in coordinating the upload a hundred thousand images to the commons that might be of interest. It’s certainly a strong indicator that they would be open to the idea. //Ed On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:38 AM, Edward Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:

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if it came to downloading them yes. But I was asking the more basic question of whether CC-BY images are OK to upload to the Wikimedia Commons, which isn’t really a question for Wellcome, right? I’ve since been pointed at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags/Free_licenses which seems to indicate they are OK. If you like I could try to get in touch with someone at Wellcome to see if they could make them easier to upload. //Ed On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hoi, Would it not make more sense to talk to the Welcome Trust ? Thanks, Gerard On 21 January 2014 12:25, Edward Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote: I imagine some of you may have seen that the Wellcome Library announced yesterday [1] that they have made over 100,000 high resolution images of manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography, and advertisements available using a CC-BY license. I was wondering [2] if it is ok to upload CC-BY images to the Commons. This is mostly in theory since the downloads are sitting behind reCAPTCHAs and several levels of click throughs — but you never know :-) //Ed [1] http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-cultur… [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Can_I_upl… _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Edward Summers

1:06 p.m.

I didn’t say there was a problem, and am not an Intellectual Property expert so I thought I would ask :-) I will follow up with Wellcome asking if they can help, and will cc the list. //Ed On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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What would be the problem with uploading CC-BY images to Commons? It's compatible with CC-BY-SA, so i see no problems there... -- Hay On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Edward Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:

Frederico just pointed me (in IRC) to a vacancy announcement for a Wikipedian in Residence at the Wellcome Trust: https://cancer-research-uk-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre-External/brand-2/candi… So I guess if you are in the UK, looking for 6 months work, and interested in coordinating the upload a hundred thousand images to the commons that might be of interest. It’s certainly a strong indicator that they would be open to the idea. //Ed On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:38 AM, Edward Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:

if it came to downloading them yes. But I was asking the more basic question of whether CC-BY images are OK to upload to the Wikimedia Commons, which isn’t really a question for Wellcome, right? I’ve since been pointed at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags/Free_licenses which seems to indicate they are OK. If you like I could try to get in touch with someone at Wellcome to see if they could make them easier to upload. //Ed On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hoi, Would it not make more sense to talk to the Welcome Trust ? Thanks, Gerard On 21 January 2014 12:25, Edward Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote: I imagine some of you may have seen that the Wellcome Library announced yesterday [1] that they have made over 100,000 high resolution images of manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography, and advertisements available using a CC-BY license. I was wondering [2] if it is ok to upload CC-BY images to the Commons. This is mostly in theory since the downloads are sitting behind reCAPTCHAs and several levels of click throughs — but you never know :-) //Ed [1] http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-cultur… [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Can_I_upl… _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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David Gerard

12:36 p.m.

Yes, probably the very first thing would be to ask Wellcome if they can help us with the batch upload, with good metadata, etc. Fae commented on the Commons thread and would be good to get you going. On 21 January 2014 11:25, Edward Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:

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I imagine some of you may have seen that the Wellcome Library announced yesterday [1] that they have made over 100,000 high resolution images of manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography, and advertisements available using a CC-BY license. I was wondering [2] if it is ok to upload CC-BY images to the Commons. This is mostly in theory since the downloads are sitting behind reCAPTCHAs and several levels of click throughs — but you never know :-) //Ed [1] http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-cultur… [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Can_I_upl… _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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