On 19 February 2014 00:34, Newyorkbrad <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm surprised not to see any replies to this particular thread. It seems > to me to be a "no-brainer" (to use a nonce-word that I hate) that imaging > equipment for local wiki organizations in a position to make good use of it > to upload free content for the projects should be a high priority for > funding at whatever level. > > There are some fairly solid practical problems. Firstly scanning is boring. Trying to get volunteers to do it on a large scale is going to be difficult. Secondly GLAMS tend to prefer that material handling be limited to professionals or their internal volunteers only Thirdly the copyright of slides is often messy. If the original photographer has died and they didn't mention copyright in their will any copyrights could well be held by multiple people. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
