On 11/28/05, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Given that images used on used pages are unlikely to end up in a DVD or a book, I seriously doubt who would suffer copyright infringement attacks for images hosted on community pages.
However the material on userpages does get reused. Why do you think people have the big this is a wikipedia userpage tag on thier user pages
It strikes me as odd, that we authorize fair use on encyclopedic content (which is likely to be reused and to irritate copyright holders), while forbidding it on personal pages (where it is unlikely to be much troubles).
It's to do with wether the fair use claim is legit or not. It is harder to establish a fair use claim for images on userpages
Overall, our license issues strike me as being more confusing and messy every day that goes by.
/me perplex
Simplified version
GFDL= fine Some versionsof CC=fine PD=fine Fair use= maybe fine may not be. What you are seeing is only stage 2 of sorting out the situation Wih permission (wikipedia only)=not allowed noncomercial lisences.=Not allowed Copyrighted no fair use= not allowed
There are some other odds and ends but the above covers the vast majority of cases.
-- geni