I have come across two cases in recent weeks, where Flickr users have
hundreds of potentially useful images that they are willing to change
to an open licence, so that we can use them on Commons, and in
Wikipedia and sibling projects.
In each case, those users are not Flickr "Pro" (paid account)
subscribers, and the feature to bulk change image licences is only
available to Pro subscribers. Changing on an image-by-image basis is
clearly untenable.
While it is possible for a Wikimedia volunteer to buy as a gift a
week-long pro subscription for a few US$, we should not have to, and I
wonder if it would benefit the movement for the Foundation to ask
Flickr to make the feature available for non-Pro users, who wish to
make their images freely reusable? Do WMF have a suitable contact at
Flickr?
Who at WMF should I talk with about this?
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk