2009/7/18 Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>om>:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jussi-Ville
Heiskanen<cimonavaro(a)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.