[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia photo squad?

[Ray Saintonge]

Imran Ghory wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Daniel Mayer wrote:
>
>>Correct me if am I wrong somebody but I do believe that an image copyright 
>>holder has the right to keep a restrictive copyright on a full resolution 
>>image AND also spin off lower resolution versions under other less 
>>restrictive licenses. 
>>
>You're correct, the full resolution graphic and the lower resolution
>graphics have seperate copyrights.
>
>However in our case it would be better if we had the full resolution
>graphics available as if a graphic ever needs to be resized to fit the
>article better it is far better to change the size and then reduce the
>resolution of a graphic than doing it the other way round.
>
Having the full resolution graphics for material (other than original 
material from our contributors) would involve grater risks of copyright 
violation than reduced resolution images.  Even assuming that there is 
unlimited storage space for these images, we have no practical use for 
most of the full resolution images anyway.  Why not store them at the 
maximum resolution that we may reasonably require?  

Storing reduced resolution images means that we have already addressed 
the substantiality factor for fair use.  Anyone that copies from us 
cannot make his images any more substantial than us.

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