Hoi,
There is also our interpretation of that same law. By taking an absolute
point of view we take a position that is at odds with what the WMF stands
for; informing all people. In my opinion this position trumps the need for
always free material. At the moment we have material in Commons that is said
to be free and it is not. People lie about this or they give assurances they
should not make. I have been explicitly given pictures to use in Commons.
The whole rigmarole of proving this point is such that the people who gave
me the picture would not be part of it. They wanted me to deal with it and,
that is what I did.
Obviously my lie is a white lie. My point is that Commons has this black and
white approach and even within Commons there is grey.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/3/30 Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de>
Gerard Meijssen schrieb:
Hoi,
When you talk about clearing properly you are applying modern notions to
historic situations. The notion of copyright and clearing copyrights is
quite modern. Licensing is also quite modern. It is easy to expect the
clearing of copyright to be done properly it is however an unreasonalbe
expectation.
Indeed. The laws should account for that. But they don't. So let's try to
make
politicians see the problem. It's the law. We can't just ignore it because
it's
stupid.
-- daniel
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