On 5/21/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
Please don't be crass. Possibly the photographer went to immense trouble to take a photograph. It doesn't matter, anyway. We can't just claim copyright over photographs because we think that the photographer didn't have much creative input.
Just querying your use of "we". Do you mean "Wikipedia cannot claim copyright"? If so, no problem, Wikipedia does not claim copyright over photos contributed to it. Or do you mean "Wikipedia's editors should not falsely assert copyright"? In that case, true, but it's really their problem, not ours. We're not going to get sued over it.
Steve