Interesting. I've had emails from the BBC in the past asking to reuse images I've taken and uploaded to Commons (to which I replied saying yes), but I haven't seen them actually using them yet. Perhaps this explains why.
Mike
On 25 Aug 2009, at 19:11, Andrew Turvey wrote:
I had an interesting conversation with a senior BBC exec on this the other day. Apparently, their lawyers aren't sufficiently comfortable with the copyright violation checking on Wikimedia Commons to be able to rely on free photographs, so they don't use them. Bizarrely they'd rather pay someone for an image, and hence be able to sue them if they had copyright problems, than get it for free.
Which brings to mind an interesting business proposition.....
:)
----- "geni" geniice@gmail.com wrote:
From: "geni" geniice@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 17:33:38 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New York Times: Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People
2009/8/25 FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com:
Note for Jimbo - we need new free pics of you.
FT2
There are better free pics but BBC sticks to Getty for the most part.
geni
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