[pd-discuss] Contact between Wikimedia Foundation and Wellcome Trust regarding image collections?

Wed Jan 12 19:35:58 UTC 2011

Unless your effort is patently "commercial," in opposition to the
words you use to describe it, what's the problem?

Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg,
Inventor of eBooks

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Hi Mathias,
>
> We were interested in featuring several images of public domain works
> from the Wellcome Trust Image Collection [1] on the Public Domain
> Review [2], but we notice that their terms of use for the images in
> the collection is quite restrictive (personal, non-commercial use
> only) [3].
>
> I wonder whether anyone from Wikimedia has been in touch with them
> about licensing any of the images under CC-BY-SA or similar for use on
> Wikipedia and elsewhere? It seems that they have some unique images
> that could be valuable to illustrating Wikipedia articles.
>
> Do you know anyone from the UK who might have been in touch with them?
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/
> [2] http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/
> [3] http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/page/Terms+of+Use.html?
>
>