[WikiEN-l] New York Times: Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/25/2009 11:12:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
andrewrturvey at googlemail.com writes:


> I had an interesting conversation with a senior BBC exec on this the 
> other day. Apparently, their lawyers aren't sufficiently comfortable with the 
> copyright violation checking on Wikimedia Commons to be able to rely on free 
> photographs, so they don't use them. Bizarrely they'd rather pay someone 
> for an image, and hence be able to sue them if they had copyright problems, 
> than get it for free. 
> 
> Which brings to mind an interesting business proposition..... >>
> 

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