On 5/24/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
No, this is not the purpose of commons. The purpose of commons is to be very restrictive and narrow so that a huge range of people who would like to feel comfortable reusing our work can do so. There will of course be borderline cases, but unlike the other projects, commons should come down firmly on the side of caution.
Indeed, by doing so, we make all the more clear what is broken about aspects of current copyright law worldwide.
I agree that we should come down on the side of caution, but not paranoia. Photos of copyrighted characters are probably not OK; photos of general 3D objects, even if those objects are copyrightable, are generally not considered copyright infringements, in the US at least and many other countries.
-Matt