Ray Saintonge wrote:
GerardM wrote:
There are plenty of lovely pictures of this
event. The only
restriction is in the use of the photos. The pictures can be used for
practically any use except for the fact that they may not be used in
advertisements. So, it is not allowed to advertise for baby-formula
and show a picture of little princess Alexia.
Strictly speaking that restriction would be contrary to GFDL.
The pictures can be used in a commercial context,
educational and
informative is explicitly OK it is just advertisements that are
disallowed.
My question: is this a restriction that we can make when we use
material like this on our Wikimedia projects ..
I doubt it. Tracing and evaluating these usages, and determining what
is advertizing is probably more than anyone wants to do. Allowing our
material to be used in any context saves a lot of problems.
I am sure the RVD or "Rijks Voorlichtings Dienst" will do that for us.
It is just for us to state the required limitations.
By law it is not allowed anyway to use pictures
of members of the
royal family in advertisements. So it is explicitly stating what all
the people from the Netherlands should already know.. (it is assumed
that everyone knows the law .. :) )
Is this a matter of copyright or of the law about the Royal Family?
What would be the status of an unofficial picture taken through a
papparazo's telephoto lens if he chose to realease that picture under
GFDL?
Ec
It is against the law in the first place to use pictures of the Royal
Family in an advertisement. A papparazo makes his foto's for the
"gossip" press. That is not using it for advertisements. As far as I
know you are not allowed to use pictures of people without their release
anyway. The release of these pictures is however explicit about what it
can be used for.
Thanks,
GerardM