[Wikimediaau-l] Jetstar relicences photos under CC-BY-SA
Hey all, I have been quite active in recent months in getting photos on Flickr relicenced, and have been quite successful in this. Aside from individual photographers, some of the organisations which have relicenced their photos after my request include Maersk Line, Austrian Airlines, Bahrain International Airport, Brussels Airport, Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Uri Tours (North Korean tour agency), amongst others. These photos are now on Wikimedia Commons. This morning, after months of persistence (using their words), Jetstar Airways, the Qantas low-cost subsidiary, kindly relicenced their photos on their Flickr stream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jetstarairways/ from CC-BY-NC-SA to CC-BY-SA, thereby allowing the usage of their photos on Wikimedia projects. The airline has also changed its default licence so that future Flickr uploads will be CC-BY-SA. I have taken the liberty of uploading their stream to Wikimedia Commons and their photos are now available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Jetstar_Airways. There will, of course, be a lot of categorisation work and cleanup to be done on these images, which I will be getting done. I wanted to take this opportunity to publicly thank Jetstar for relicencing their photos and in turn supporting the free culture movement. Cheers Scotty ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Jetstar relicences photos under CC-BY-SA
Now that's a pretty damn cool release! Just looking through the flickr stream I can see some pics that we will have no use for (staff Halloween party, anyone?) but a *whole bunch* that we can - individual airframes, maintenance work underway, plane interiors (inc. the cockpit) and fittings, ground equipment, security/emergency drills... Useful for much more than just articles specifically relating to Jetstar itself. I've often advocated to commercial organisations that since the *point* of their taking marketing photos is to get people to use them, making them available to us to potentially use is a big opportunity. While we don't use them in an directly promotional way, surely having *your* product being available to be used as the canonical visual representation of its category on the relevant Wikipedia (in this case for example a Boeing plane painted in your company colours) is a good business-case to make to their marketing and legal teams! Congratulations on making this argument successfully Russavia. wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 17 March 2014 13:38, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I have been quite active in recent months in getting photos on Flickr relicenced, and have been quite successful in this. Aside from individual photographers, some of the organisations which have relicenced their photos after my request include Maersk Line, Austrian Airlines, Bahrain International Airport, Brussels Airport, Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Uri Tours (North Korean tour agency), amongst others. These photos are now on Wikimedia Commons. This morning, after months of persistence (using their words), Jetstar Airways, the Qantas low-cost subsidiary, kindly relicenced their photos on their Flickr stream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jetstarairways/ from CC-BY-NC-SA to CC-BY-SA, thereby allowing the usage of their photos on Wikimedia projects. The airline has also changed its default licence so that future Flickr uploads will be CC-BY-SA. I have taken the liberty of uploading their stream to Wikimedia Commons and their photos are now available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Jetstar_Airways. There will, of course, be a lot of categorisation work and cleanup to be done on these images, which I will be getting done. I wanted to take this opportunity to publicly thank Jetstar for relicencing their photos and in turn supporting the free culture movement. Cheers Scotty ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Jetstar relicences photos under CC-BY-SA
Indeed, this is a great achievement :) I look forward to seeing how it improves our aviation articles on Wikipedia. Steve On 17/03/2014 2:03 pm, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Now that's a pretty damn cool release! Just looking through the flickr stream I can see some pics that we will have no use for (staff Halloween party, anyone?) but a *whole bunch* that we can - individual airframes, maintenance work underway, plane interiors (inc. the cockpit) and fittings, ground equipment, security/emergency drills... Useful for much more than just articles specifically relating to Jetstar itself. I've often advocated to commercial organisations that since the *point* of their taking marketing photos is to get people to use them, making them available to us to potentially use is a big opportunity. While we don't use them in an directly promotional way, surely having *your* product being available to be used as the canonical visual representation of its category on the relevant Wikipedia (in this case for example a Boeing plane painted in your company colours) is a good business-case to make to their marketing and legal teams! Congratulations on making this argument successfully Russavia. wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 17 March 2014 13:38, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I have been quite active in recent months in getting photos on Flickr relicenced, and have been quite successful in this. Aside from individual photographers, some of the organisations which have relicenced their photos after my request include Maersk Line, Austrian Airlines, Bahrain International Airport, Brussels Airport, Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Uri Tours (North Korean tour agency), amongst others. These photos are now on Wikimedia Commons. This morning, after months of persistence (using their words), Jetstar Airways, the Qantas low-cost subsidiary, kindly relicenced their photos on their Flickr stream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jetstarairways/from CC-BY-NC-SA to CC-BY-SA, thereby allowing the usage of their photos on Wikimedia projects. The airline has also changed its default licence so that future Flickr uploads will be CC-BY-SA. I have taken the liberty of uploading their stream to Wikimedia Commons and their photos are now available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Jetstar_Airways. There will, of course, be a lot of categorisation work and cleanup to be done on these images, which I will be getting done. I wanted to take this opportunity to publicly thank Jetstar for relicencing their photos and in turn supporting the free culture movement. Cheers Scotty ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
