Hoi,
I was at the Tropenmuseum the other day .. they said that this "commercial"
notion is old hat.. Sharing collections, engaging the public is what ensures
the future of museums. So I am hopeful that the Tropenmuseum is right and
will prove to be so. The thing is they do not need to be right everywhere
and at this moment.. I expect that this notion will grow as the benefits of
sharing and engaging become clear.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/7/21 <wiki-lists(a)phizz.demon.co.uk>
David Gerard wrote:
2009/7/21 <wiki-lists(a)phizz.demon.co.uk>uk>:
If you have a personal use, want to illustrating
an article or blog that
is not Adsense rich, have an academic use, or a small scale fundraising
non-profit fine take what you want. If on the other hand you are share
cropping with Google Ads, using the images to tart up an otherwise
tawdry commercial web site, are involved in online selling, are a
commercial advertising or publishing house, then kiss my arse.
The NC license serves very well.
Certainly. I don't release every pic I take under a free license ...
hardly any of them, actually.
For Wikimedia purposes, though, one has to really let it free.
I only ever release under an NC license, so the wildlife photos,
architectural, historical, and medieval art images appear on academic
and educational sites, sites like nowpublic, and others, but will never
be on wikipedia due to the commercial use licensing policy.
Explaining this to professional content creators
and media companies
leads to exploding heads. Pointing out that giving it all away has
made Wikipedia a top-ten website and must be doing all right from it
isn't enough to convince them ... it goes so much against everything
they think they know about the world.
And in turn there are those of us that will not give anything to these
media companies. I'll see a company like News International rot in hell
first.
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