[Commons-l] Flickr's "The Commons" Mk 2: the Powerhouse Museum

[Florian Straub]

Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote on mon, 14 apr 2008 
00:15:21 +1000:


> On 13/04/2008, Maria Fanucchi <marialadouce at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just for the record, the Powerhouse Museum has created a group on Flickr for
>> people to post their photographs of places seen in the Tyrrell Collection
>> (the collection with the old PD images being put online). It is called
>> "Tyrrell Today", and while there are few members there are already four very
>> nice photographs, one under a Commons-compatible license. They seem to be
>> actively searching for images of Sydney today and inviting their authors to
>> post them to the group.
>>
>> Linky: http://www.flickr.com/groups/684897@N24/
> 
> Oh, awesome.
> 
> Question:
> How should we tag images that come from Flickr's "The Commons"? Flickr
> calls them "No known copyright restrictions".
> 
> PD-old?
> 
> Should the ones from LOC go to PD-old, and Powerhouse Museum to PD-Australia?

Flinfo ( [[User:Flominator/Flinfo]] ) currently uses {{PD-Bain}}, 
{{PD-USGov-FSA}} and {{LOC-image}} for the LOC pictures.


> Or should we create a new "no known copyright restrictions"? I tend to
> think not, unless we restrict to only images from institutional
> sources (or even just Flickr's "The Commons").

I'd say either {{PD-Powerhouse}} or {{PD-Australia}}. Tell me how and I 
will implement it.


Best regards,

Flo