so as long as money goes to a chapter your saying it would be fine to say: *Put an amazon or ebay link on every product related page *Use referrer ids on wikis to websites that allow it *and the dreaded advertising as long as the money goes to chapter/WMF
is this really what your saying? mark On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hoi, > You forget that as the copyright holder of your picture, you are free to > sell copies of your pictures as well. You are even allowed to provide your > material under a different license. The only thing you are not allowed is > to > revoke the license you provided your material to Commons under. > > Consider, a person decides to buy a printed copy of any picture from > Commons, the author can live all over our globe, there is an amount paid of > 15 EURO including package and posting there is a margin of 1,50 EURO for > the > Wiki side of things. The cost of paying the author can be as high as 18 > EURO > just on banking fees. SO what is to be done? Posting a message,,, it takes > 3 > minutes to do this. I would consider this spam, I do not want this but you > do... A volunteers is supposed to do this ? He does not feel like it... > > When a print is produced, a true value added service is provided. I do not > have a printer that allows me to print poster sized. By providing a service > like this, the value to our readers is enhanced. When money is going to the > French chapter, they will be able to do more. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/1/23 Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]> > > > Did actually anybody ever considered paying some part of the profit to > the > > authors of the pictures? Or at least, if this is such a tiny amount that > > it would not make sense, placing some acknowledgments at their pages? > > > > I am sorry to say, now I see quite an opposite attitude: "You have put a > > picture under a free licence, now do not complain". This is fine of > course > > but does not encourage the authors very much. > > > > Cheers > > Yaroslav > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
