2000 years of human culture: Wellcome images! July 12, 2007
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Art, Invention, Medical Imaging, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Photography, Policy and Law, science, Wikipedia.trackback
The Wellcome Trust has released its Wellcome image collection under the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-commercial Licence 2.0. We’ll see how we can use it in Wikipedia. Here is a short collection of some images of the Wellness category:
Digitally enhanced MRI of the human head showing the brain and spinal cord in orange/yellow and the other tissues in blue and pink.
6 day old human embryo beginning to implant into the lining of the uterus (endometrium).
It’s good to see improvements and projects like this one.
Update: According to the useful comments below, here are some resources (Wikimedia Commons Licensing and freedomdefined.org) saying that we can’t use these in Wikipedia.
You can’t use it in Wikipedia because NC licenses are not free!
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
*bangs head against brick wall*
Indeed. Creative Commons are lovely people, but -NC and -ND are NOT FREE CONTENT. -NC violates “for any purpose” and -ND violates “can modify.” Have a look at http://freedomdefined.org .
While Creative Commons is a fine organisation of lovely people, their monopolisation of the idea of “other than all-rights-reserved” keeps creating problems for us …
What a fantastic resource! Thanks for letting us know about this one
I updated the article, thank you for the valuable comments!
[...] 2000 years of human culture: Wellcome images! [...]
Wellcome Trust can re-license to a compatible free license anytime they choose (e.g. CC-BY-SA). Some of the reasons for not allowing -NC on Commons in this fine article by Erik Möller, boardmember of Wikimedia Foundation: Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/11/16331/0655
its a good article i really like it!!!!!