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On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 13:21, Michael Maggs <michael@maggs.name> wrote:
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> Would certainly love them to use more images from Commons. The main barriers seem to be:
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> 1. A perceived lack of legal certainty when using Commons images
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> 2. Lack of in house legal expertise leading to an almost paranoid fear of 1.
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> 3. Hugely greater time and expertise needed to find, research and download Commons images, including the requirement to read, understand and accept a vast variety of complicated tags, templates and scary warnings.
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> 4. (Sometimes) past experiences with the Wikimedia communities giving rise to concerns of bad publicity and reputational risk if they get it ‘wrong’.
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> More effort is needed from all of us to tackle those barriers.
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> Michael
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And in this case most of the images we do have are US millitary which
is not without its own issues.
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geni
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