[Wikimedia-l] photography restrictions at the Olympics

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2012/7/24 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>:
> On 24 July 2012 10:21, Frederic Schutz <schutz at mathgen.ch> wrote:
>> Has anyone from the Wikimedia community contacted the IOC on this matter?
>>
>> If not, WM CH could give it a try (their headquarters are in Switzerland,
>> actually less than 2km away from my place). I'm not overly optimistic, but
>> it may be worth a try.
>
> Wikimedia Australia have two accredited reporters for the Paralympics,
> but this explicitly does not provide for freely licensed photography:
>
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Paralympic_Games

Aha! Now this starts to be a problem that justifies a campaign for
allowing Wikmedia-compatible licensing. At the very least, a post
about this issue in the Foundation blog or in one of the chapters'
blogs.

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