What would be the problem with uploading CC-BY images to Commons? It's compatible with CC-BY-SA, so i see no problems there...
-- Hay On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Edward Summers <[email protected]> wrote: > Frederico just pointed me (in IRC) to a vacancy announcement for a Wikipedian > in Residence at the Wellcome Trust: > > > https://cancer-research-uk-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre-External/brand-2/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/4/opp/482-Wikipedian-in-Residence/en-GB > > So I guess if you are in the UK, looking for 6 months work, and interested in > coordinating the upload a hundred thousand images to the commons that might > be of interest. It’s certainly a strong indicator that they would be open to > the idea. > > //Ed > > On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:38 AM, Edward Summers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> if it came to downloading them yes. But I was asking the more basic question >> of whether CC-BY images are OK to upload to the Wikimedia Commons, which >> isn’t really a question for Wellcome, right? I’ve since been pointed at: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags/Free_licenses >> >> which seems to indicate they are OK. If you like I could try to get in touch >> with someone at Wellcome to see if they could make them easier to upload. >> >> //Ed >> >> On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hoi, >>> Would it not make more sense to talk to the Welcome Trust ? >>> Thanks, >>> Gerard >>> >>> >>> On 21 January 2014 12:25, Edward Summers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I imagine some of you may have seen that the Wellcome Library announced >>> yesterday [1] that they have made over 100,000 high resolution images of >>> manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography, and advertisements >>> available using a CC-BY license. I was wondering [2] if it is ok to upload >>> CC-BY images to the Commons. >>> >>> This is mostly in theory since the downloads are sitting behind reCAPTCHAs >>> and several levels of click throughs — but you never know :-) >>> >>> //Ed >>> >>> [1] >>> http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-culture-made-free-through-wellcome-images/ >>> [2] >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Can_I_upload_CC-BY_images.3F >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Commons-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Commons-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
