"First of all, there is
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reuse>. If you still have
any questions, feel free to let us know! We are always happy to help,
and it will also help us improving the reuse page."
Thanks, that's a good reference.
Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
On 8/19/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A recent statement by the FSF suggest they think
otherwise.
Which is only a legal opinion, just like Rama's is. There have been no
court cases over this, so it is not clear who is right. I would advise
you to contact the author of the image. If they give you explicit
permission to use the image without licensing your whole site GFDL,
you should be fine. That is, imho, the safest option.
Bryan
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My hunch is that, since this issue is a bit vague, it's extremely
unlikely that anyone could "steal" my website by claiming it falls under
Creative Commons or GNU provisions based on the use of some images.
However, I appreciate your suggestion of trying to contact the image's
creator directly and requesting explicit permission to use it.
I hope to get some new articles with scattered images from Wikipedia
online in a few days. Is it OK if I list some of them on this newslist
and solicit feedback about how I'm using them? Most of the images will
be automatically linked to larger images, so I'll have to include at
least a simple caption (e.g. "Source/Credit"), linked to the proper
citation.
Or I could simply link to the appropriate Wikipedia page, where visitors
can find a larger image AND the technical/legal description - though
that might not work if I have to add my own fine print (e.g. "I modified
this image on July 7, 2007.").
I've begun using a database to organize my images, helping me keep track
of the creator, permissions, etc.
On another note, does anyone know how Wikipedia creates a page with a
.jpg extension that displays not only the image but text? An example is
at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mourning_Dove_2006.jpg
Thanks for all the tips.
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