Past Thinking » sharing http://www.pastthinking.com/blog Archaeology, museums, and heritage: news, opinions and digital developments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:57:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 2006-2007 tom@goskar.com (Past Thinking) tom@goskar.com (Past Thinking) posts Where Past Meets Future Past Thinking Past Thinking tom@goskar.com No no http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Past Thinking http://www.pastthinking.com/blog 144 144 Wessex Archaeology adopts Creative Commons license for photos http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2007/05/24/wessex-archaeology-adopts-creative-commons-license-for-photos/ http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2007/05/24/wessex-archaeology-adopts-creative-commons-license-for-photos/#comments Thu, 24 May 2007 13:39:02 +0000 Tom Goskar http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2007/05/24/wessex-archaeology-adopts-creative-commons-license-for-photos/ [Disclaimer: I work for Wessex Archaeology]
Wessex Archaeology have just announced that they will be using a Creative Commons license for the 600+ photos that they have on Flickr and in their gallery.

Let’s hope that other heritage organisations follow suit. The “All Rights Reserved” copyright model is very restrictive when you study and record the past, and want to share some of that work with others to aid and encourage further learning.

By adopting the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0″ license, they are actively saying to people “we want you to use our photos”. Which for a heritage organisation, is fairly novel!

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