b m schreef:
Another strange thing, which has less to do with wikiborders, and more with real ones, according to Dutch copyright law it is apparently forbidden to display album covers on the Dutch wikipedia (as stated int he Dutch image use policy). But the English one shows them just fine. My question is, since wikipedia is hosted and founded in the US, what does it matter that a Dutch-language article wants to have an album cover. Is it forbidden just because the language is different? One click away resides a nice hi-res album cover on the English wikipedia. I'm confused about the legal framework on this one.
There are three reasons for this:
* Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion of copyrighted works do not follow the law: they are more strict. We want to be a *free* encyclopedia, which is why we do not accept certain images which we would be legally allowed to (for example, those with a non-commercial license). Each wikipedia makes its own inclusion policies, so it's not strange that the nl.rules difffer from the en.rules.
* We want our content to be re-used. The English wikipedia will only be reused by Americans[*], but the Dutch wikipedia will mainly be re-used by people in the Netherlands and Belgium. Including images that are not allowed in EU law would make it impossible/more difficult for their main audience to re-publish our content.
* Wikipedia is not responsible for the individual edits; the contributors are. Which means that Dutch and Belgian editors are not allowed to put those album covers into nl.wikipedia. Since 99% of the contributors are not Americans, it makes sense for nl to include this in the policy.
Eugene
[*] This argument may be flawed, but I'm not sure.