Hi Matthew,
Op 19-7-2012 16:06, Matthew Roth schreef:
Hi all,
In Washington DC after Wikimania, I went on a monument photo walk and
was very happy with some of the photos I took of the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial>
wall. Then I started looking at the FoP rules in the U.S. and realized
I don't think I can upload most of those photos to Commons, given the
wall is likely considered a statue and is therefore under copyright.
Several questions:
1. Is this accurate? Should I consider the photos as inadmissible?
If it's
copyrighted, it's not allowed at Commons and it will be deleted.
2. Does anyone have experience in other countries with
monuments that
are on the list but are still under copyright? Will we need to be
clear that some of the sites on the Register in the U.S. are not
eligible for the contest?
I guess this is a very small percentage.
3. How does the primary photo
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TouchWall.jpg> on the EnWP
article qualify to be hosted on Commons? Is there a percentage of a
photo that can still contain a copyrighted monument and be acceptable
for upload to Commons? Or is it a resolution issue? It seems there are
various photos of the wall that are on Commons that similarly display
the wall without copyright notices or templates, like this one
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vietnam_Veterans_with_Washington_Monument.jpg>.
We have
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama
and
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:De_minimis . For exact
details in the USA you might want to drop by at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Public_Art . They
have a lot of experience with the complicated copyright situation of
public art in the US.
Maarten