[WikiEN-l] NASA meatballs and wikipedia meatheads

[Peter Ansell]

What are their rationales? That US government produced symbols can't
be put in images inside of wikipedia even though the image is Public
Domain by law?

Can't fight fair use guys though. They have the uncertainty based on
wikipedia never going to court and hence we have to be ultra sensitive
about any IP issues just in case because nothing has been defined by a
court.

Peter

On 01/04/2008, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Give me strength. Image deletionists are systematically going through
>  and deleting each and every image produced by NASA, simply because it
>  contains a symbol that says it's written by NASA. Apparently they
>  think that they might let me keep some NASA images if I more or less
>  pretend it was written by somebody who added it to the wikipedia by
>  actually removing the insignias.
>
>  Um. What?
>
>  So far as I can tell NASA have got a specific law that says you can't
>  fraudulently stick their (public domain!) insignia on something to
>  make it look like it was written by them when it wasn't, but other
>  than that, they very, very, very probably want you to say where you
>  got an image from, and the images/insignias/documents are not covered
>  by copyright unless they weren't done by NASA but one of their
>  contractors. In other words, you might be breaking the law by removing
>  it.
>
>  The wikipedia image guys really just absolutely have no idea what
>  they're doing, they have completely lost the plot.
>  --
>  -Ian Woollard
>
>  We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
>  imperfect world things would be a lot better.
>
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