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.....
:)
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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.
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geni
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