Hi Andy
Fair point.
If Flickr Commons is meant to be for cultural resources perhaps we need
Flickr Marketing? We agree on the CC licence and Flickr do the hosting.
Anyway that was the idea I was thinking of raising with George Oates at the
Leicester conference.
Brian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Managing an institutional web site
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Powell
> Sent: 19 May 2008 09:39
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Opening Up University Marketing Materials
>
> Re: specific use of Flickr Commons...
>
> "The key goals of The Commons are to firstly give you a taste
> of the hidden treasures in the world's public photography
> archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge
> can help make these collections even richer."
>
> Please don't start trying to pollute such a potentially
> significant cultural activity with "photos of smiling students"! :-(
>
> Andy
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Managing an institutional web site
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Kelly
> > Sent: 19 May 2008 09:20
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Opening Up University Marketing Materials
> >
> > I've recently written a blog post [1] in which I suggested that
> > institutions should "provide a Creative Commons licence for
> > [marketing] videos and encourage people to reuse it". I'd go even
> > further and suggest that those photos of smiling students
> (who happen
> > to be wearing the University sweatshirt or are pictured next to an
> > iconic representation of the
> > institution) should also be made available under a CC
> licence. And I'd
> > suggest that a licence which permits reuse for commercial purposes
> > would be desirable - if we want commercial companies to do our
> > marketing for us, we should acknowledge that they will need a
> > financially viable reason to do this.
> >
> > Flickr Commons [2] seems to allow institutions to do this (although
> > Google Video or YouTube might be a better choice for videos).
> >
> > Is anybody making such marketing materials available under a CC
> > licence? And is there any interest in Flickr Commons? At
> present only
> > the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney are using
> > Flickr Commons and Flickr are still gauging demand for this
> - and the
> > focus has initially been on photos of historical interest [3]. But
> > George Oakes from Flickr is visiting the UK next month to
> speak at a
> > museums conference at the University of Leicester [4]. It
> does seem
> > to me that this could be an opportunity to explore the
> potential of UK
> > Universities making use of this service.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > 1
> > http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/sites-which-rip-off
> > -marketing-vid
> > eos/
> > 2 http://www.flickr.com/commons
> > 3
> > http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/01/17/f
> > lickr-commons-
> > mass-exposure-of-historical-images/
> > 4 http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/meetings/2-2008.shtml
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > Brian Kelly
> > UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, UK, BA2 7AY
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
> > Phone: +44 1225 383943
> > Web site: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
> > Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
> >
>
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