[WikiEN-l] Image statistics -- 374 000+ "fair use" images

[Adam Lorenz]

We have to remember that US copyright laws always apply because of the
physical location of the servers and Wikimedia.

Adam


On 7/18/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/17/06, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> > It's recommended but not required. There aren't many reasons left
> > to upload free images to en:, but there's some inertia resisting
> > the change. Plus, in the absence of single signon, it would result
> > in many more redundant logins to merge later, so my personal
> > inclination is not to press the issue until after single signon is
> > up and running.
>
> There's so much benefit to uploading them to Commons (improving the
> status of Commons as a free repository, getting images used across all
> of the Wikipedias, etc.), it seems almost criminal to not upload them
> there.
>
> > There have been some criticism of commons policy, but I attribute
> > that to commons being genuinely multinational. For instance,
> > en: and de: WP editors are mostly happily unaware of their differing
> > practices, but on commons they can end up butting heads over how
> > to handle a shared image.
>
> That's my take on it too. Something which seems quite natural to a
> bunch of US editors, steeped in US copyright notions and law, can
> often be quite complicated when introduced into a more international
> forum, without even taking into account language differences. But it
> generally works out, eventually.
>
> FF
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Adam J. Lorenz