It's the only way to have some images in the italian articles. We have a lot of restrictive legislations and we can't use the fair use. For example, we can go in a museum and take some pictures of a painting but, we can't publish into wikipedia without the permission of the "sovraintendenza ai beni culturali"; some days ago the "sovraintendenza ai beni culturali" of florance have threated us for the photos of some painting and ohter kind of arts taked into the florence's museums; perhaps will be a problem also for commons. This is the situation, we don't want to remove all the images that are into the databases becous often a picture is essenctial to understand or to describe a particular concept.
Senpai ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@wikia.com To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board meeting in Rotterdam later this week
Marco Chiesa wrote:
Brianna Laugher wrote:
No projects allow NC, do they? English Wikipedia hasn't allowed them for some time.
The Italian language wikipedia allows a plethora of licenses for images, included NC, copyrighted with permission (we ask the copyright owner to mail OTRS for this) and some cases of fairuse as allowed by the Italian law. We do also allow PD images with are not allowed on commons.
I am sorry to hear this, because this is a violation of Wikimedia Foundation policy. From day one, we have been the *free* encyclopedia.
The Italian community needs to work out a transitional policy to correct this problem... it will take time and a lot of work, and you will have to be gentle with people, but it is just not acceptable to have those images in wikipedia in the long run.
--Jimbo
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