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(a)wikia.com>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)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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