Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Yes, I think that's a very good point Andy. I agree that many people are probably unaware of their rights to our collective cultural heritage, and would instinctively feel that publicly funded institutions should, at the very least, uphold those rights. Thanks, Lucy On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 10:55,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 16:19, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote: [...] > To come back more specifically to the BM issue, I will follow this up next > week. Thank you, Lucy. I have been reflecting on this over the weekend. As well as the two prongs of our lobbying the BM (choosing a better licence for

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Dear all As a number of people have noted already, it is indeed disappointing that the British Museum has released these images under a non commercial licence, given the obvious restrictions to people actually accessing and using them. Whilst staff at Wikimedia UK have many partnerships within

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

I agree that it's only a matter of time before somebody does it but, as with the NPG a few years ago, the BM are likely to be quite upset if we can't get them to see it from our point of view. If anyone has any relevant contacts it might be worth reaching out. It could be that they don't fully

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Thanks WSC, Though our recent experience in UK chapter AGMs is that they neither have hustings nor honestly welcomed "debates" for a few years now. As this year's AGM will be a yet to be detailed virtual event, it's even more unlikely that sufficient of the 500{{cn}} registered members will take

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Andy makes some important points. We know that even if editors in the UK respect what the British Museum is doing and don't upload those images to Commons or Wikipedia; where they are public domain images under US law, it is just a matter of time before someone in the movement, anywhere in the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This is a difficult problem to solve. Remember that the WMUK was talking with the British Museum way back in 2009/2010, which led to the first Wikipedian in Residence. That they are now using a CC licence is a good step forward, however I suspect the ’NC’ difficulty is related to the existence

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:43, Owen Blacker wrote: > > That it's a non-commercial licence is really disappointing, but that's still > a little better than nothing… With the emphasis on the "little". There are two things wrong with this, which we as a movement (and individually) need to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Thanks Owen! The Natural History Museum did this with their Data Portal as they were building it. Thanks to Andy Mabbet for letting us know that high-res images of their specimens are now being uploaded on Commons

[Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

That it's a non-commercial licence is really disappointing, but that's still a little better than nothing… https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/04/28/british-museum-makes-1-9-million-images-available-for-free/ The British Museum has revamped its online collections database, making over 1.9