Interesting. I've had emails from the BBC in the past asking to reuse images I've taken and uploaded to Commons (to which I replied saying yes), but I haven't seen them actually using them yet. Perhaps this explains why.
Mike On 25 Aug 2009, at 19:11, Andrew Turvey wrote: > I had an interesting conversation with a senior BBC exec on this > the other day. Apparently, their lawyers aren't sufficiently > comfortable with the copyright violation checking on Wikimedia > Commons to be able to rely on free photographs, so they don't use > them. Bizarrely they'd rather pay someone for an image, and hence > be able to sue them if they had copyright problems, than get it for > free. > > Which brings to mind an interesting business proposition..... > > :) > > ----- "geni" <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> From: "geni" <geni...@gmail.com> >> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 17:33:38 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, >> Ireland, Portugal >> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New York Times: Wikipedia to Limit Changes >> to Articles on People >> >> 2009/8/25 FT2 <ft2.w...@gmail.com>: >>> Note for Jimbo - we need new free pics of you. >>> >>> FT2 >> >> There are better free pics but BBC sticks to Getty for the most part. >> -- >> geni >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l