[Foundation-l] [Slashdot] Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I was at the Tropenmuseum the other day .. they said that this "commercial"
notion is old hat.. Sharing collections, engaging the public is what ensures
the future of museums. So I am hopeful that the Tropenmuseum is right and
will prove to be so. The thing is they do not need to be right everywhere
and at this moment.. I expect that this notion will grow as the benefits of
sharing and engaging become clear.
Thanks,
       GerardM

2009/7/21 <wiki-lists at phizz.demon.co.uk>

> David Gerard wrote:
> > 2009/7/21  <wiki-lists at phizz.demon.co.uk>:
> >
> >> If you have a personal use, want to illustrating an article or blog that
> >> is not Adsense rich, have an academic use, or a small scale fundraising
> >> non-profit fine take what you want. If on the other hand you are share
> >> cropping with Google Ads, using the images to tart up an otherwise
> >> tawdry commercial web site, are involved in online selling, are a
> >> commercial advertising or publishing house, then kiss my arse.
> >> The NC license serves very well.
> >
> >
> > Certainly. I don't release every pic I take under a free license ...
> > hardly any of them, actually.
> >
> > For Wikimedia purposes, though, one has to really let it free.
> >
>
>
> I only ever release under an NC license, so the wildlife photos,
> architectural, historical, and medieval art images appear on academic
> and educational sites, sites like nowpublic, and others, but will never
> be on wikipedia due to the commercial use licensing policy.
>
>
> > Explaining this to professional content creators and media companies
> > leads to exploding heads. Pointing out that giving it all away has
> > made Wikipedia a top-ten website and must be doing all right from it
> > isn't enough to convince them ... it goes so much against everything
> > they think they know about the world.
> >
>
> And in turn there are those of us that will not give anything to these
> media companies. I'll see a company like News International rot in hell
> first.
>
>
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