Timwi wrote:
Jason Y. Lee wrote:
Do we have any way to issue Wikipedians press
badges? There are a
lot of events that could be covered by Wikipedian photographers that
would allow the whole mess of copyrights... since Wikipedian
photographers are likely to copyleft than copyright....
Actually, use Wikinews as the excuse, not Wikipedia. Not only is this
closer to being eligible for a press badge, but also it will mean the
images will be public domain! :-)
Err, no it won't. PD isn't the licensing for Wikinews any more; it moved
to CC-BY-SA 2.5 a while ago. And it wouldn't "mean that", it just that
we would unnecessarily (and in many countries, illegally) force users to
rescind their copyright claims, and so reduce the number of images that
could possibly be used.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
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