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

Wed Jan 12 21:32:13 UTC 2011

No need to look for such "genuinely open" material is this cause,
as I see it, unless one has some other agendas not genuinely open.

Let's wait for the real answer, rather than just sumise here. . . .

Michael

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> 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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