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

Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod at mccme.ru
Sun Jan 25 00:44:45 UTC 2009


> Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I think this is one of the best advantages of the French image
> printing initiative (Wikiposter), that it makes it absolutely
> clear to everybody that images uploaded to Wikipedia (to the
> Wikimedia Commons) are allowed for commercial reuse.  There is no
> better way to explain this, than to print and sell the images.
> This is indeed an innovation in education.  My congratulations!
>
Well, I definitely have to agree with this.

Cheers
Yaroslav




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