Yes. We need a Wikimedia Commons feature to make time capsules that will open when images inside are public domain, 50 years, 100 years in the future. Meanwhile, only admins can explore them.
For some images we could build a repository that releases images to commons on specific dates. I have hundreds of images that I can only release now on a limited license, but in a few decades or maybe a century could be broadened to PD. But I think for Italy we need to see the law changed.WSCOn 27 August 2012 09:40, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84@gmail.com> wrote:
I think it is very interesting,for example in Italy we had an earthquake and nearly40-50 churches were severely damaged or destroyed (plus many houses and other monuments, of course).I actually have many of pictures of those damaged churches:still, we don't have the authorization for publishing them (you still remember our crappy law?)So I don't know what I should do with them...Aubrey2012/8/27 WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers@gmail.com>
If we want to build up our image library of lost monuments then WLM is perhaps not the best place to start. Rather than a photo hunt for what is available today we need a hunt through attics for things available from the past. Much was destroyed in the war, and quite a bit since. Even where buildings survived and were restored often the stained glass windows were lost. But there are copyright issues when the photographers died in recent decades. I would like to load some of my grandfather's photographs, and I think that my Mother would have sole inheritance rights to his copyrights, but with one of her uncles it gets more complex.WSCOn 26 August 2012 22:06, Platonides <platonides@gmail.com> wrote:
I was wondering if somebody had (or was willing to prepare) a list of
monuments around the world that could have been photographed
during WLM 2011 timeline but no longer exist.
I think it would make for a great piece of news for release during the
contest, in the lines of [[en:Wikipedia:There is a deadline]] essay, to
motivate participation.
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