2009/7/18 Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com>: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jussi-Ville > Heiskanen<cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any chance of Wikimedia UK (the chapter) applying >> for a membership of BAPLA? Or would they be considered >> "insufficiently commercial"? > Commons would be the equivalent constituent unit of the Wikimedia > Foundation family, not Wikimedia UK. Yes. It is very important that *chapters don't do the content*, particularly in the UK. If it were ever judged otherwise, we just wouldn't be able to have a chapter in the UK at all. > You may want to look through the > BAPLA list and see if any charities or non-profit organisations are > there - there might well be, as I've never looked through the whole > list, but I suspect that even those ones would be selling their > images, not distributing them for free reuse (or they would be doing a > combination of free distribution and sales). The closest you might > come would be "non-commercial use" (e.g. museums), but that, as has > been made clear at Commons, is insufficiently free. BAPLA's stated ambitions appear to be to become the monopoly cartel for images in the UK - the RIAA or MPAA, with similar morals and ethics. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l