Dear all
As a number of people have noted already, it is indeed disappointing that
the British Museum has released these images under a non commercial
licence, given the obvious restrictions to people actually accessing and
using them. Whilst staff at Wikimedia UK have many partnerships within
I agree that it's only a matter of time before somebody does it but, as
with the NPG a few years ago, the BM are likely to be quite upset if we
can't get them to see it from our point of view. If anyone has any relevant
contacts it might be worth reaching out. It could be that they don't fully
Thanks WSC,
Though our recent experience in UK chapter AGMs is that they neither
have hustings nor honestly welcomed "debates" for a few years now. As
this year's AGM will be a yet to be detailed virtual event, it's even
more unlikely that sufficient of the 500{{cn}} registered members will
take
Andy makes some important points.
We know that even if editors in the UK respect what the British Museum is
doing and don't upload those images to Commons or Wikipedia; where they are
public domain images under US law, it is just a matter of time before
someone in the movement, anywhere in the
