On 18 September 2012 10:43, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Gerard, 18/09/2012 11:28:

>> The target I'm thinking of is PR people who are actually fans of
>> WIkipedia (these exist and are enthusiastic) and who can see something
>> useful to them (get their pics into Wikipedia). So the trick is how to
>> make an image donation reasonably safe without causing so much
>> bureaucracy we can't safely accept the donation.

> If it's about fans already active in PR and so on, they probably have a
> website? Just make them stick a CC-BY/CC-BY-SA tag on their website with the
> photos or whatever.
> Many agencies and various entities use flickr, which we can import from.
> If they have to digitize stuff or whatever, things get harder.


That word "just" ... you're trivialising that doing a simple thing has
actually caused problems in the past. It would not have solved the
PETA or Cafe Magazine examples, for example.


- d.

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