To further David's point - 
Flickr.com
staticflickr.com
panoramio.com 
and two amazon web services urls 

are all already whitelisted for the GWT. So, there are already several examples of commercially operated services that host freely-licensed media files being acceptable sources for the GWT. 

-Liam


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On 11 January 2016 at 17:52, Maarten Brinkerink <wmnl@maartenbrinkerink.net> wrote:
+1

> Op 11 jan. 2016, om 17:51 heeft David Haskiya <david.haskiya@europeana.eu> het volgende geschreven:
>
> Hi,
> From my point of view: certainly. Commons already has loads of images sourced from e.g. Flickr (and many GLAMs don't run their own servers but put media in commercial providers servers).
>
> As long as the media objects have the correct file formats and licenses/rights status I don't see why it would matter that they're fetched from a server run by a commercial company.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Glamtools [glamtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Hans Muller [j.m.muller@hccnet.nl]
> Sent: 11 January 2016 17:45
> To: Conversations revolving around the development of GLAM Digital Tools
> Subject: [Glamtools] Can commercial GLAM companiy domains be whitelisted for    GWT?
>
> Dear all,
>
> In the Netherlands and elsewhere GLAMs pay companies like picturae.com to
> produce images of their collections, resulting in thousands of .tifs
> etcetera.
>
> Up to now, as far as i know these company websites have not been
> whitelisted for uploads to Commons. It could be practical if GLAMs which
> want to donate images, can do so directly from such a company's domain. (A
> GLAM asked me whether to ask a scanning company to allow this from their
> company side.)
>
> As i don't (yet) have a specific URL as a test, i can't at this point ask
> whitelisting on Phabricator. So i would like to test the waters here. If
> whitelisting of a company is a "no-no", it makes no sense aa company to
> allow this anyway. GLAMs (and I) must use other more indirect upload
> inroads.
>
> * What's your view?
>
> Thanks, hans muller
>
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