[Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

[Mark (Markie)]

so as long as money goes to a chapter your saying it would be fine to say:

*Put an amazon or ebay link on every product related page
*Use referrer ids on wikis to websites that allow it
*and the dreaded advertising as long as the money goes to chapter/WMF

is this really what your saying?

mark

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hoi,
> You forget that as the copyright holder of your picture, you are free to
> sell copies of your pictures as well. You are even allowed to provide your
> material under a different license. The only thing you are not allowed is
> to
> revoke the license you provided your material to Commons under.
>
> Consider, a person decides to buy a printed copy of any picture from
> Commons, the author can live all over our globe, there is an amount paid of
> 15 EURO including package and posting there is a margin of 1,50 EURO for
> the
> Wiki side of things. The cost of paying the author can be as high as 18
> EURO
> just on banking fees. SO what is to be done? Posting a message,,, it takes
> 3
> minutes to do this. I would consider this spam, I do not want this but you
> do... A volunteers is supposed to do this ? He does not feel like it...
>
> When a print is produced, a true value added service is provided. I do not
> have a printer that allows me to print poster sized. By providing a service
> like this, the value to our readers is enhanced. When money is going to the
> French chapter, they will be able to do more.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> 2009/1/23 Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>
>
> > Did actually anybody ever considered paying some part of the profit to
> the
> > authors of the pictures? Or at least, if this is such a tiny amount that
> > it would not make sense, placing some acknowledgments at their pages?
> >
> > I am sorry to say, now I see quite an opposite attitude: "You have put a
> > picture under a free licence, now do not complain". This is fine of
> course
> > but does not encourage the authors very much.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Yaroslav
> >
> >
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