[Wikipedia-l] Re: image copyright

[Robert Michel]

Salve,

Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2004 08:46 schrieb Delirium:
> [] This image is licensed under the GFDL by ___

How do we archive this licence?
Some idees
- Hash code for the images
- Unic ID numbers to be able to have a black list of withdrawn (deleted 
pictures) because of invalid licences
- Paper contracts with people which put this pictures under the GFDL with the 
Hash code of the pictures, description of it and discription of his source 
and history
- This paper contracts should be made in three exemplars, one for the 
contributor, one for the national Wikipedia organisation and one for the 
international foundation

Why so much bureaucracy? When the director of one museum give us verbally the 
rigth to use this a photo of one modern work of art - what is when his 
successor do not like us to use this photo with GNU-FDL and he would prefer 
to make money with picture agency like Corbi$?

This paper contracts should be archivated at two places, because one place 
could mabe burn down.

If we agree for more wather proof GNU-FDLs contributions, the question is 
would it be necessary to do this for every photo?

When someone contribute a photo of a public building, a tree or so, I don`t 
think that paper licences would be neccessary. In this case personal PGP-Keys 
with real names and a ring of trusted Keys like the Debian.org people do 
would be perfekt.

But for pictures of art from museums, pictures from famos people and pictures 
from films should have conservative, signed, paper lizences.

Otherwise oure picture collection could grow fast, but with some cuckoo's 
eggs, changed mind of contributors or changed laws it could be that we lose 
many important pictures.

IMHO it`s better to have view, good documentated pictures with water-profe 
licences than many pictures and negativ news press about us in short time for 
sure.


Greetings from the [[de:Karneval|carnivalistic]] Aachen:
°</:o)x   
rob  






PS: 
I can hear music from the marketplace, close to my room. Every year the crasy 
carneval weekend starts on Thursday (Weiberfastnacht, Fettdonnerstag) morning 
11:11h when the broads (Weiber) conquer the town hall and takeover symbolicly 
the key of the town hall from the burgomaster (mayor) for one day. From time 
to time  I can hear the carnevalistic battle call and "Alaaf" cried by 
everbody:
"Oche?" - "Alaaf", "Oche?" - "Alaaf", "Oche?" - "Alaaf"
or 
"Oche?" - "Alaaf", "Prince Michael I.?" - "Alaaf", "Oche?" - "Alaaf"
But this discribe only the impression of carneval when you sit at your 
desktop. Carneval is realy a great fun, when you join the big party on the 
streets ;)

Oche=local dialect for Aachen