--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
First, use the extensive public domain archives
Pictures are public domain if they
- have been created before 1923
- are produced by the US government.
...or have been placed in the public domain by the copyright owner. Check out for example the excellent collection of portrait photographs donated to the Library of Congress.
Next, once our foundation has money, we can try to acquire the copyright of selected important images we need and cannot get in any other way.
The problem with that approach is that we need an exclusive world-wide license, since we need to allow unlimited redistribution and modification.
*non-exclusive*
This is *very* expensive for most professional photographs, and impossible for many.
So instead you suggest to simply take them for free, hoping that fair use applies?
I think Brion's suggestion of simply linking to the external site containing the photograph is a win-win-win-win proposal:
* The copyright owner gets exposure * Our readers get access to the educational content * We are still able to burn a CD with all our material and put "GFDL" on the cover * The inconvenience of the external link encourages contributors to hunt for free substitute photographs.
Axel
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