I read about this site in the Guardian today (I might be late on the band wagon):

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/default.aspx

They’re collecting an archive of images of listed buildings taken by members of the public.

Do you think it would be worthwhile contacting them to ask if they’d be prepared to send a mass e-mail to their volunteer photographers saying something like the following:

“Hi,

The Wikimedia Foundation would like to be able to use your photographs on Wikipedia and her sister sites, however to do this you must agree to release your photographs under a ‘Creative Commons’ license. [Insert blurb about CC licenses].

If you would be prepared to have your photos released under such a license, please click on the following link:

http://link.to.a.binding.sign.up.form.probably.on.the.uk.foundation.site/

Thanks,

English Heritage”

It would be great for Commons if we could get these images.

(It seems crazy that they didn’t make release under a CC license a criteria for acceptance as a volunteer photographer... One of our goals as a UK organisation really ought to be lobbying people like the Lottery Fund to get them to mandate “free” licenses on work like this they fund.)

Tom