Oh, don't worry, we do! And we're not alone - many of the digital staff working in various institutions are very open to this, as are some funders of them (e.g. Europeana)
Of course the best possible sell is showing what could be done with material once it was released... :)
On Thursday, March 29, 2012, HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell@ymail.com> wrote:
> I think we should make a real effort to explain the pros and cons of the various CC licenses and what they actually mean for copyright holders and re-users. I think many choices of licenses like NC are born out of a lack of understanding, and people might be more receptive to CC-By-SA if they understood it better.
> I could be wrong, but that's my general impression.
> Harry
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> From: Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Livetweeting the Battle of Arras (1917)
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> Just a note for the World War I buffs amongst you - there's quite an interesting plan by Oxford University to crowdsource a livetweet of the Battle of Arras. More info here: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/?p=253
> I'm planning to take part and other Wikimedians would be very welcome.
> You might notice that the organisers have taken a licensing approach of putting the eventual resource they are creating from this initiative under CC-BY-NC, but nevertheless encouraging participants to digitise their own materials and put them on Commons. So that's 50% right ;-)
> Chris
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