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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
No it is not, and this should be obvious because I never mentioned amazon
nor ebay. There is no comparison so do not be daft.
Thanks,
     GerardM

2009/1/23 Mark (Markie) <newsmarkie at googlemail.com>

> 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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