[OpenGLAM] City Archives Amsterdam

[Sarah Stierch]

On 1/22/13 10:57 AM, Stefano Costa wrote:

> Second, I am curious about what you get exactly when paying 50 cents.
> Is that a copy for your personal use only? Would you be able to
> publish it e.g. on Wikimedia Commons, or circulate it in any way
> without any restriction? If not, then I think it will be more
> difficult to change the current situation. If instead you get an
> unlimited license for 50 cents, the best thing may be to collect 150k
> EUR and "buy" the whole lot, giving a few years of funding to the
> project :-)


This is a good question. What does the archives "expect" the "buyer" to 
do with the content after they "purchase" it (so many quotes)!

This reminds me of a little story:

A about a year ago, a Wikimedian purchased a high resolution copy of 
/Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1//(/aka/Whistler's Mother)/and had 
it anonymously uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, where it is now a featured 
image and is used throughout numerous Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia. 
The image cost $500+ for the Wikimedian to purchase. He did this with a 
little extra money he had and asked the community for input about what 
images they'd like to see "freed". I was happy that this one was "freed" 
as it originally appeared on my list. He had to do this anonymously (his 
username is his real last name and it's quite unique, so he had to do 
this under a guise) and had someone else create a fake account and 
upload it. This is because it was against his "agreed" contract with 
Getty that he could not use the image outside of his original requested 
use claim and Getty could sue him for using it in unintended ways. 
(!?!!?!?!)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whistlers_Mother_high_res.jpg

Enjoy mother, the high resolution is so beautiful that it brought tears 
to my eyes the first time I looked at it :)

-Sarah

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Sarah Stierch
US OpenGLAM Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org
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