On 11 October 2013 20:58, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
Can't you point them towards: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses to explain a lot of this?
I've just followed up with:
=== Here are useful pages to read on the topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Donating_copyrighted_materials http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses
To summarise: it's a bit of a big thing to release a picture for completely free reuse ... but in practice, it mostly works out OK. ===
If they don't get it from that, I suspect it's hopeless ;-)
- d.