On 27/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Holden</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:thomas.holden@gmail.com">thomas.holden@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">









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

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<p><a href="http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/default.aspx" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/default.aspx</a></p>

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<p>They're collecting an archive of images of listed
buildings taken by members of the public.</p>

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<p>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:</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>"Hi,</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>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].</p>

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

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<p><a href="http://link.to.a.binding.sign.up.form.probably.on.the.uk.foundation.site/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://link.to.a.binding.sign.up.form.probably.on.the.uk.foundation.site/
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<p>Thanks,</p>

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<p>English Heritage"</p>

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<p>It would be great for Commons if we could get these images.</p>

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<p>(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.)</p>

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<p>Tom</p>

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</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>Well, I think it is a great idea.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alex (Majorly)