Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
that one may not upload a small, low resolution
line drawing of the
USS Enterprise? without violating copyright?
Leaving aside the baseless allegation of trolling,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anti-Star_Trek_Cabal_logo.png is
possibly going to be deleted for that reason.
To quote
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Derivative_works
> And no, it doesn't matter whether Mickey Mouse is printed on a
> T-shirt, which you bought with your own money and which is worn by
> yourself while you're walking in a public place, loudly reciting the
> GFDL. That doesn't at all give you the right to take a picture of the
> T-shirt, cut out Mickey Mouse and upload it as "free" material.
> Nothing you'll ever do, whether you draw Pikachu with your own crayons
> or sculpt a giant Sailor Moon figurine, will ever lead to the point
> where you magically turn copyrighted material into "free" material.
Yet, if you take a photo of your friend in Disneyland, you can upload it
as a free picture even if some kid in the background happens to be
wearing a Mickey Mouse T-shirt.
Probably even if it's you friend who's wearing the T-shirt, as long as
the main subject of the image is your friend and not the shirt.
Anyway, I just posted a much longer message on this subject, so I'll
keep this one short.
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Ilmari Karonen