Hi Andy, I agree that it would be good to make it easier for Flickr photographers to relicense their images for use on our projects. I can raise this through our collaboration with the Flickr Foundation.
Best, Fiona On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 16:21, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: > I have come across two cases in recent weeks, where Flickr users have > hundreds of potentially useful images that they are willing to change > to an open licence, so that we can use them on Commons, and in > Wikipedia and sibling projects. > > In each case, those users are not Flickr "Pro" (paid account) > subscribers, and the feature to bulk change image licences is only > available to Pro subscribers. Changing on an image-by-image basis is > clearly untenable. > > While it is possible for a Wikimedia volunteer to buy as a gift a > week-long pro subscription for a few US$, we should not have to, and I > wonder if it would benefit the movement for the Foundation to ask > Flickr to make the feature available for non-Pro users, who wish to > make their images freely reusable? Do WMF have a suitable contact at > Flickr? > > Who at WMF should I talk with about this? > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/XT5JN7EB7VE7XFRQOELGJFTL65OCNXGH/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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