2009/6/5 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
Can I put the question in another way: Suppose a media company lawyer came to us and said "we've found this photo on Wikimedia that we would like to use - how can we do this and comply with the copyright" What would we say in response? Is it written down anywhere?
Yes - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia was written specifically to deal with this precise question.
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