I expect the photographer would have made that claim already if he did significant post-processing and that WMF would have considered this in their decision.
Pine
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Mike Peel <email@mikepeel.net> wrote:Because Wikimedians don't take copyright way too seriously. ;-)
> On 12 Aug 2014, at 07:53, Osama Khalid <osamak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 11:24:25PM +0100, Thomas Morton wrote:
>> But being dicks about winning is surely not the sort of attitude we
>> want to display? Hardly helps support our stance as serious, rather
>> than trollish.
>
> That photographer who took copyright way too seriously didn't deserve
> respect. It's really silly that when he is actually dragging people
> into court, we hesitate to use a simple social defense such as this
> one.
On that note - how sure are we that the post-processing done to the photo was sufficiently minimal to avoid generating a copyright in its own right?
Thanks,
Mike
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