On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 13:21, Michael Maggs <michael(a)maggs.name> wrote:
Would certainly love them to use more images from Commons. The main barriers seem to
be:
1. A perceived lack of legal certainty when using Commons images
2. Lack of in house legal expertise leading to an almost paranoid fear of 1.
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.
4. (Sometimes) past experiences with the Wikimedia communities giving rise to concerns of
bad publicity and reputational risk if they get it ‘wrong’.
More effort is needed from all of us to tackle those barriers.
Michael
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