On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Presented as a philanthropic operation, this initiative looks more > like a commercial action. Indeed, the participation is conditioned by > the acceptance of a CC license allowing the commercial reuse of the > pictures. > > Private or public entities can therefore use this pictures legally as > postcards, posters, books or as illustrations in the press. > > The professional photographers living from the copyrights are worried > by this initiative [...]" > > Strainu My personal opinion is that the real meaning is: "some of our members didn't bother to read the rules of the contest and discovered too late that people could reuse their work" or "There are some really good photographers out there who share their work for free so how on earth are we going to charge a lot of money for a bunch of good photos?" Cruccone _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
