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

Wed Jan 12 19:53:48 UTC 2011

On 12 January 2011 19:35, Michael S. Hart <hart at pglaf.org> wrote:
>
>
> Unless your effort is patently "commercial," in opposition to the
> words you use to describe it, what's the problem?

Because, I would imagine, Jonathan is looking for material that is
genuinely open as in http://opendefinition.org/ :)

Rufus

> 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?
>>
>>
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