[WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

[Luna]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Dan Dascalescu <
ddascalescu+wikipedia at gmail.com <ddascalescu%2Bwikipedia at gmail.com>> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 06:23, <elipongo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Would he, his heirs, or his estate object if the photo of the poem was
> modified to be used in a fast-food ad or for a hate group?
>
> What does this have to do with the poem being engraved verbatim in a
> public monument?
>

If someone intends to maintain control over how content is used -- which I
think is what Elipongo was getting at -- that content is not freely
licensed. If content is not under a free license, I believe we generally
consider it "non-free".

Where the clear intent of a photo is to reproduce a given text verbatim, I
should think that the original copyright on that text (if any) still
applies. Photographing pages of a book doesn't suddenly render the book's
copyright moot, for example.

-Luna