I didn’t say there was a problem, and am not an Intellectual Property expert so I thought I would ask :-) I will follow up with Wellcome asking if they can help, and will cc the list.
//Ed On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Hay (Husky) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
