On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:28AM +0000, Andre Engels wrote:
I agree. It would also be good to have a discussion going with a gallery
like this - what about offering them a link for each work of 'theirs' that's
on our site. Problem is of course the GNU/FDL - as we do not believe them to
be copyright holders, we cannot require of downstream users to keep that
kind of thing.
I've tried this with a major Australian art gallery. Their multimedia
guy was very excited about the possibility of releasing "web-sized"
images of PD works and seeing them used in the web's best encyclopedia.
I got the distinct impression that the higher-ups weren't, and are still
pretty clueless about this sort of thing.
Still, just because *one* gallery didn't go for it, doesn't mean every
gallery will knock us back. I'm considering contacting one of the
*other* major galleries and pointing out to them the benefits of having
the works *they* have of famous Australian artists in the Wikipedia,
rather than the gallery that knocked us back :)
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