Just a note from a very occasional reader: one of the apparently final
determinants made by User:Nv8200p before he deleted the Einstein-Planck
images is that Corbis claims it as one of theirs, thus it must be
copyrighted.
I have found over the years that Corbis has many, many US-government
produced images in its catalog that they claim they own the copyright
on. They also have many images that are so old that they cannot possibly be
still copyrighted (images published first in the early 19th century, for
example). I once e-mailed them about this and the person who e-mailed me
back said that they were claiming the copyright on the _scans_, not the
images themselves.
Which is of dubious legal validity, as all of on here know.
So just a head's up on that. Corbis has no real problem in overextending
their copyright claims to things that we would probably not agree with based
on our own copyright policies and the goals of a free encyclopedia. As we
all know, there is virtually no risk to Corbis for doing so as long as they
don't sue anybody for these dubious claims (as the US Copyright Office does
not seem to prosecute false copyright claims of this nature). Just because
it is in a Corbis catalog does not mean it is not actually public domain --
Corbis is not careful about these things.
FF
2009/1/12 Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Andrew Gray
<andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>
wrote:The debates at the time on en-Wikipedia were:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2007_J…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_August_2
But a year later we have this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Max-Planc…
Anyone here know what should be happening with this image?
Carcharoth
_______________________________________________
WikiEN-l mailing list
WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l