On 7/26/06, Anthere <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I uploaded the picture of Treanna on the english
wikipedia. It was the
picture he had on his user page. A bad image, but the only one we had
for him. Certainly an image which will never be reused by anyone. But an
image of Treanna.
The crime : it was uploaded as a non-derivative license. So, it is
proposed for deletion.
And frankly, I can not ask Treanna any more if he would be nice enough
to change that license to make it free by wikipedia definition.
Is it not, theoretically speaking, possible for someone just to assert
ownership of it, and upload it under public domain? They can take full
responsibility for any (highly unlikely) challenge to their ownership
of it coming from the family or estate or whatever?
(but in any case, yes, this is a sad situation)
Steve
I'd sooner make the (somewhat suspect) claim of fair use - after all, it's
an article about the subject, etc.