[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010 Jury announcement

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Bimmler
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] Tangential press: "BBC to put nation's oil paintings online"

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Peel
Undoubtably some of them will be public domain - those for which the author died over 70 years ago - but it tends to be troublesome to find out when the author did die. Others, especially any audio/video, will still be copyrighted by the author. Assuming the authors are still alive, we'd ne

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] Tangential press: "BBC to put nation's oil paintings online"

2009-01-29 Thread AndrewRT
Thanks for posting this Mike. I'm not clear if they're retaining copyright for the paintings - presumably if they are we couldn't just copy them into Commons? On Jan 29, 9:29 am, Michael Peel wrote: > This might be worth investigating. The BBC might put the content   > online in high-resolution

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] Tangential press: "BBC to put nation's oil paintings online"

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Peel
This might be worth investigating. The BBC might put the content online in high-resolution form, so we could just grab a copy, but it might be simpler / quicker / better publicity if we could get them to 'donate' a copy to Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. Mike Begin forwarded message: > From: