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

Thu Jan 13 23:45:12 UTC 2011

Thanks Mathias! In that case I think we'll probably write to them and
perhaps cc some of the Wikimedia UK folks into the email.

Am I correct in assuming that Wikipedia would be interested in using
the images if they were under a compatible license? I'm thinking
particularly of things like:

http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/gallery/Treasures.html?f=1&

Also do you have any material to hand with success stories about
cultural heritage institutions who have made low resolution images
available under an open license, while perhaps selling access to /
reuse rights for higher resolution versions?

All the best,

Jonathan

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler at wikimedia.de> wrote:
> Dear Jonathan,
>
> thanks for your email.
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> 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].
>
> Do you have a clue what the legal basis for Wellcome Trust is to
> justify restriction of usage? If the images are actually in the public
> domain and no other copyright restriction applies, it would be safe to
> ignore "terms of usage" that have no legal basis.
>
>> 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?
>
> Not to my knowledge. But I know about one Wikipedian who happens to
> work there as a biologist.
>
> Mathias
>

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