Hello all,
Apologies if this has been discussed before (I'm a newbie to the list), but the
Australian users on the "Wikipedia:Australian wikipedians' notice board"
would like to use some images that we will not be able to license under the GFDL or any
other copyleft like license. The reason for this is because Australia does not have any
fairuse legislation, and we require permission for images that are under 50 years old -
even if they are from the Australian government.
For instance, we have recently started collaborating on the Cyclone Tracy article and I
took off my image and had to list it on Images for Deletion because I didn't secure
permission before uploading it. Yes, very naughty I know! In the meantime I have found
some extremely excellent images. I have purchased one (URL for the image is
http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/picturescatalogue?action=PCDisplay&mode=disp…)
and the other seems to be from the government archives and is probably OK to use also (see
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?action=PASearch&m…)09&no=1).
My question is: will I be allowed to upload and use them in the article? I will have to
apply a restrictive license.
I realise that this is not the best situation, but in some cases we will be unable to use
images for some recent historical events if we are unable to upload such images. This
would really be a shame :(
Anyway, apologies if this has been asked and debated before, but I would really appreciate
feedback on this issue.
Thanks,
Chris (Ta bu shi da yu)