It was the day before Christmas, and Daniel Andrews’ social media team shared a ‘Free Public Transport on Christmas Day’ post.
Not everyone can rely on Dancer and Prancer to get them around tomorrow.
So we're putting on free public transport right around Victoria.
Merry Christmas. pic.twitter.com/q8SesyxQ5H
— Dan Andrews (@DanielAndrewsMP) December 24, 2019
My first through – I’ve seen that photo of a V/Line train before – I uploaded it to Wikipedia a decade ago.
So where did the other photos come from? The Z3 class tram looked familiar – Wikipedia again.
And the bus – another photo via Wikipedia.
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But as for the source of the X’Trapolis train photo – I’ve come up blank – if only they’d followed the Creative Commons licence…
You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
And through the looking glass
If you take a close look at the original photo on Wikipedia, you’ll notice a green advertisement for Monteith’s apple cider.
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Which has been photoshopped out of the ‘Free Public Transport on Christmas Day’ post – replaced by a panel of PTV green triangles.
I at times don’t attribute photos, but the more personal they are and not already shared, or all over the internet, the more likely I am likely to note who took the photo. FB can be very problematic for working out who took the original photo. That a government department does as they have with your photos is outrageous, and as I am sure you know, the same has happened with Daniel’s photos.
Other than Wikipedia, I’ve found Weston Langford’s photos another great source of images to reuse – also under a Creative Commons license.
https://www.westonlangford.com/license/
As for Wikipedia content, the Embed Wikimedia WordPress plugin does all the hard work for the me.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-wikimedia/
Funny how politicians say ‘we’ as in they are providing something. Really, they should say ‘you’ because all of us are paying for it.