[Commons-l] Copyright is hard (was Re: Professionalphotographers on Commons: sucess story)

[Siebrand Mazeland]

We do have [[COM:COWN]] and [[COM:CLIC]].

Most of the summarising has been done in the upload messages, I think...

Anything in particular that you find it missing? I fully agree with previous
authors: copyright stuff is hard. Going outside one's contry's jurisdiction
makes it even harder. "Making it work on Commons" is "impossible" (but we do
make it happen!)

Cheers!

Siebrand

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[mailto:commons-l-bounces op lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Bryan Tong Minh
Verzonden: woensdag 7 november 2007 10:29
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Onderwerp: Re: [Commons-l] Copyright is hard (was Re:
Professionalphotographers on Commons: sucess story)

On Nov 7, 2007 3:05 AM, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher op gmail.com> wrote:
> Rama, nice post. :)
>
> On 07/11/2007, Erik Moeller <erik op wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Yeah. Looking at his talk page makes me sad -- the usual round of 
> > scripted & stacked image deletion warnings for copyright reasons. We 
> > need socially more appropriate ways to deal with copyright issues.
>
> The thing is...
> Copyright is hard. It is a brick wall that is high, and I don't know 
> of any way of getting around it easily or quickly that isn't cheating, 
> ie fundamentally wrong, and likely to bite you on the arse in the 
> future. It's like weight loss, there is only one way that works - the 
> hard way.
>
I'm also thinking that Commons:Licensing is a long and hard document to read
and above all very scary for new users. It tries to set out the details of
our licensing policy. Maybe we should create a summarizing page that
outlines the basics and refers to the relevant Commons:Licensing,
Commons:Derivative_works,  etc.?

Bryan