IANAL but instead could the WMF legal folks contact Facebook to ask them to make their terms compatible with CC-BY-SA and CC-BY licenses? I would rather have FB change then ask our users to change permissions. FB would gain commercially from the views of
WM content on their site, meaning that FB has a commercial incentive to change that WMF Legal could mention when discussing the situation with FB.Pine
On Oct 16, 2015 12:25 AM, "Katherine Maher" <kmaher@wikimedia.org> wrote:Funny you mention that Tilman.
I was wondering last night if it might be possible to talk to the organizers of WLM/WLE about making that part of the finalist process for next year. So much more visibility for the winners!
mobile.
On Oct 16, 2015 3:08 AM, "Tilman Bayer" <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:As an aside, the organizers of another contest told me they explicitly
request permission from all contestants to upload their submissions to
Facebook, in order to determine winners by voting via "Likes" in FB
photo albums: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/02/wiki-tour-chile-photo-contest/
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Jeff Elder <jelder@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I would really like to post some of the photos on social. Can we get
> permission from the photographers -- i.e., are the organizers in touch with
> them? I don't see any of the photos in the public domain, which is what we
> need unless we have permission.
>
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> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Ed Erhart <eerhart@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We've just published "See the stunning winning photographs from Wiki Loves
>> Earth 2015" to the blog:
>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/15/wiki-loves-earth-winners/
>>
>> Thanks to Vira for the post.
>>
>> Proposed social media messages:
>>
>> The top five images come from three continents and five countries.
>> You can't miss <insert favorite image here>.
>> Have you ever seen a bee being born?
>>
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