Today "Rzeczpospolita" daily newspaper (one of most popular daily in Poland) put an article with lawyer analysis prooving that Polish money as "governmetal signs" are excluded from copyright.
Article in Polish: http://ejdzej.webpark.pl/wiki/Prawo-znaki_pieniezne.jpg
Could we possibly use that opinion to restore images of Polish coins and bills on Commons?
On 02/08/2007, Ejdzej Wikipedysta ejdzej.wikipedysta@gmail.com wrote:
Today "Rzeczpospolita" daily newspaper (one of most popular daily in Poland) put an article with lawyer analysis prooving that Polish money as "governmetal signs" are excluded from copyright.
Article in Polish: http://ejdzej.webpark.pl/wiki/Prawo-znaki_pieniezne.jpg
Could we possibly use that opinion to restore images of Polish coins and bills on Commons?
IIRC one of the reasons money was removed is because even if the money is not copyrighted there all still 'unfree' restrictions imposed upon it. For example if you printed it out you could probably get prosecuted.
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2007/8/3, Uber Halogen uberhalogen@googlemail.com:
On 02/08/2007, Ejdzej Wikipedysta ejdzej.wikipedysta@gmail.com wrote:
Today "Rzeczpospolita" daily newspaper (one of most popular daily in Poland) put an article with lawyer analysis prooving that Polish money as "governmetal signs" are excluded from copyright.
Article in Polish: http://ejdzej.webpark.pl/wiki/Prawo-znaki_pieniezne.jpg
Could we possibly use that opinion to restore images of Polish coins and bills on Commons?
IIRC one of the reasons money was removed is because even if the money is not copyrighted there all still 'unfree' restrictions imposed upon it. For example if you printed it out you could probably get prosecuted.
There are many other restrictions to nearly any other kind of free materials :(
AJF/WarX
2007/8/3, Uber Halogen uberhalogen@googlemail.com:
IIRC one of the reasons money was removed is because even if the money is not copyrighted there all still 'unfree' restrictions imposed upon it. For example if you printed it out you could probably get prosecuted.
Well, if you print one of those: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bills_of_the_United_States
you get in trouble too :)
As I remember, main reason for Polish money was that National Bank of Poland states, they are copyrighted: http://www.nbp.pl/home.aspx?f=disclaimer_banknoty.htm
According to analysis in Rzeczpospolita, NBP is wrong.
"Unfree restrictions" on money are IMHO similar to restrictions of personal identity, trademark, etc. If copyright restriction is invalid in this case, we could handle non-copyright restrictions by putting warning template.
2007/8/3, Uber Halogen uberhalogen@googlemail.com:
On 02/08/2007, Ejdzej Wikipedysta ejdzej.wikipedysta@gmail.com wrote:
Today "Rzeczpospolita" daily newspaper (one of most popular daily in Poland) put an article with lawyer analysis prooving that Polish money as "governmetal signs" are excluded from copyright.
Article in Polish: http://ejdzej.webpark.pl/wiki/Prawo-znaki_pieniezne.jpg
Could we possibly use that opinion to restore images of Polish coins and bills on Commons?
IIRC one of the reasons money was removed is because even if the money is not copyrighted there all still 'unfree' restrictions imposed upon it. For example if you printed it out you could probably get prosecuted.
If you print a PD picture on a piece of class, you could probably be prosecuted if you kill someone using that picture. :) (just a joke)
Barcex
On 8/3/07, Uber Halogen uberhalogen@googlemail.com wrote:
On 02/08/2007, Ejdzej Wikipedysta ejdzej.wikipedysta@gmail.com wrote:
Today "Rzeczpospolita" daily newspaper (one of most popular daily in Poland) put an article with lawyer analysis prooving that Polish money as "governmetal signs" are excluded from copyright.
Article in Polish: http://ejdzej.webpark.pl/wiki/Prawo-znaki_pieniezne.jpg
Could we possibly use that opinion to restore images of Polish coins and bills on Commons?
IIRC one of the reasons money was removed is because even if the money is not copyrighted there all still 'unfree' restrictions imposed upon it. For example if you printed it out you could probably get prosecuted.
We (generally) do not look into restrictions other than copyright restrictions. I think we can undelete the images. Probably a reference on COM:L and the relevant license tag would be useful.
Bryan