[WikiEN-l] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

Joseph Reagle reagle at mit.edu
Thu Sep 17 12:39:10 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Steve Bennett wrote:
> Also, I'm confused. There is absolutely nothing at that page which
> would indicate to me that I wasn't entitled to do what that eBay
> seller did. It even says "The right to use this work is granted to
> anyone for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions
> are required by law." Your name only appears once on the page, and it
> doesn't say "attribution required" or "copyright" or anything like
> that...

This is what I said last time this issue came up, these pages are confusing in what some think are the appropriate way in which they should be used, and perhaps this could be clarified.



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