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 > >
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