On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com
wrote:
I had an interesting conversation with a senior BBC exec on this the other
day. Apparently, their lawyers aren't sufficiently comfortable with the
copyright violation checking on Wikimedia Commons to be able to
G'day folks,
The New York Times reports on flagged revisions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html?partner=rssemc=rss
Wikipediahttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wikipedia/index.html?inline=nyt-org,
one of the 10 most popular sites on the
I'm waiting for actual definitive information on enwiki or meta.
FT2
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Keith Old keith...@gmail.com wrote:
G'day folks,
The New York Times reports on flagged revisions:
Similar story also reported by the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8220220.stm
Before you shout, Mike's already been on to them to correct the subsidiary
wording.
Wikipedia to launch page controls
Jimmy Wales, Getty Images
The call for flagged revisions came from Wikipedia
2009/8/25 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Andrew
Turveyandrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
Similar story also reported by the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8220220.stm
Oh dear. Same picture as for the previous BBC story on Wikipedia.
Note for Jimbo - we need new free pics of you.
FT2
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Andrew
Turveyandrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
Similar story also reported by the BBC:
2009/8/25 FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com:
Note for Jimbo - we need new free pics of you.
FT2
There are better free pics but BBC sticks to Getty for the most part.
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geni
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I had an interesting conversation with a senior BBC exec on this the other day.
Apparently, their lawyers aren't sufficiently comfortable with the copyright
violation checking on Wikimedia Commons to be able to rely on free photographs,
so they don't use them. Bizarrely they'd rather pay
In a message dated 8/25/2009 11:12:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
andrewrtur...@googlemail.com writes:
I had an interesting conversation with a senior BBC exec on this the
other day. Apparently, their lawyers aren't sufficiently comfortable with the
copyright violation checking on Wikimedia
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
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Here at um wikifreeverified.com we ensure you that all our content has
been triple-checked by expert triple-checkers to ensure that it's all free
free free! To use that is. For your ease of mind you will pay us $1000 per
On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Andrew Turvey wrote:
I had an interesting conversation with a senior BBC exec on this the other
day. Apparently, their lawyers aren't sufficiently comfortable with the
copyright violation checking on Wikimedia Commons to be able to rely on free
photographs, so
Interesting. I've had emails from the BBC in the past asking to reuse
images I've taken and uploaded to Commons (to which I replied saying
yes), but I haven't seen them actually using them yet. Perhaps this
explains why.
Mike
On 25 Aug 2009, at 19:11, Andrew Turvey wrote:
I had an
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