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(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On 9/24/07, Armed Blowfish
<diodontida.armata(a)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(a)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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