Timwi wrote:
Jason Y. Lee wrote:
Do we have any way to issue Wikipedians press badges? There are a lot of events that could be covered by Wikipedian photographers that would allow the whole mess of copyrights... since Wikipedian photographers are likely to copyleft than copyright....
Actually, use Wikinews as the excuse, not Wikipedia. Not only is this closer to being eligible for a press badge, but also it will mean the images will be public domain! :-)
Err, no it won't. PD isn't the licensing for Wikinews any more; it moved to CC-BY-SA 2.5 a while ago. And it wouldn't "mean that", it just that we would unnecessarily (and in many countries, illegally) force users to rescind their copyright claims, and so reduce the number of images that could possibly be used.
Yours,