so as long as money goes to a chapter your saying it would be fine to say:
*Put an amazon or ebay link on every product related page *Use referrer ids on wikis to websites that allow it *and the dreaded advertising as long as the money goes to chapter/WMF
is this really what your saying?
mark
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi, You forget that as the copyright holder of your picture, you are free to sell copies of your pictures as well. You are even allowed to provide your material under a different license. The only thing you are not allowed is to revoke the license you provided your material to Commons under.
Consider, a person decides to buy a printed copy of any picture from Commons, the author can live all over our globe, there is an amount paid of 15 EURO including package and posting there is a margin of 1,50 EURO for the Wiki side of things. The cost of paying the author can be as high as 18 EURO just on banking fees. SO what is to be done? Posting a message,,, it takes 3 minutes to do this. I would consider this spam, I do not want this but you do... A volunteers is supposed to do this ? He does not feel like it...
When a print is produced, a true value added service is provided. I do not have a printer that allows me to print poster sized. By providing a service like this, the value to our readers is enhanced. When money is going to the French chapter, they will be able to do more. Thanks, GerardM
2009/1/23 Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru
Did actually anybody ever considered paying some part of the profit to
the
authors of the pictures? Or at least, if this is such a tiny amount that it would not make sense, placing some acknowledgments at their pages?
I am sorry to say, now I see quite an opposite attitude: "You have put a picture under a free licence, now do not complain". This is fine of
course
but does not encourage the authors very much.
Cheers Yaroslav
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