[WikiEN-l] New York Times: Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People

[Andrew Turvey]

I had an interesting conversation with a senior BBC exec on this the other day. Apparently, their lawyers aren't sufficiently comfortable with the copyright violation checking on Wikimedia Commons to be able to rely on free photographs, so they don't use them. Bizarrely they'd rather pay someone for an image, and hence be able to sue them if they had copyright problems, than get it for free. 

Which brings to mind an interesting business proposition..... 

:) 

----- "geni" <geniice at gmail.com> wrote: 
> From: "geni" <geniice at gmail.com> 
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 17:33:38 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New York Times: Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People 
> 
> 2009/8/25 FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>: 
> > Note for Jimbo - we need new free pics of you. 
> > 
> > FT2 
> 
> There are better free pics but BBC sticks to Getty for the most part. 
> -- 
> geni 
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