[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs.ml at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 4 21:42:22 UTC 2011


(Off-Topic post)

On 09/04/2011 09:53 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> Also, de.wikipedia uses Commons 100% iirc. Commons also only
> hosts actual free (as in speech) images. Because -hey- that's
> their mission.

That's almost correct :)
There are some exceptions due to a relative low "Threshold of
originality" for logos in German law. E.g. this is considered public
domain by German law (but not internationally, so Commons doesn't have
it): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Laufendes-Auge_2.jpg

On the other hand, there are very few cases, where an image on Commons
can't be used in German Wikipedia. Example:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_photo_1920.jpg?uselang=de

Regards,
Tobias

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