We've not banned anybody for contributing images to Wikipedia, be they freely licence or copyrighted and used under our fair use provisions, and I don't think we've blocked any users for uploading fair use material roughly in accordance with policy (copyright, source, rationale etc). People who are getting blocked are people who are claiming copyright on work that is not theirs, and we're not talking about the misguided souls who think because they've made a screenshot, they own the copyright, we're talking about people who continually claim ownership of stuff they're finding on the internet in a deliberate attempt to circumvent fair use and deletion policies.
Nick
On 24/09/2007, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 9/24/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
Maybe not banning free image providers for the sake of The Bureaucracy (TM) would help.
On 24/09/2007, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Which free image providers are banned for the sake of a bureaucracy?
I'm not dragging individuals into this. But surely you have noticed that if someone breaks some bureaucratic rule (most of which have nothing to do with legal issues) and someone else draws attention to it, it doesn't matter how much that person has contributed to the encyclopaedia (images, text, good articles, featured articles, whatever), and the person gets banned?
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