On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
2009/1/28 Sam Johnston samj@samj.net:
Material in the public domain or under a fully free licence does not require any kind of fair use consideration.
I'm not talking about genuinely free material, I'm talking about
protected
(copyrighted/trademarked) material being uploaded by others - for example
a
periodic table of elements or medical charts which would normally be
subject
to deletion (except that they are currently immediately available for sale!).
I'm a little confused - surely we would delete this stuff whether or not there's a "buy a print now" clickthrough button? I can't see anyone arguing to keep it because they want to run off a poster...
(and to a degree this is rendered moot by that helpful "lowest useful resolution" requirement of the unfree material rules)
1. Upload high-resolution copyrighted image littered with trademarks as anonymous user. 2. Immediately order poster of said image. 3. File against WMF, its chapter(s) and the printer for good measure claiming [RI|MP]AA sized damages for copyright and trademark infringement, submitting said poster(s) and invoice(s) as evidence. 4. ??? 5. Profit!
Note that these steps need not necessarily be completed by the same parties. I'm not sure that the courts would have much leeway here (as they might were the image not used commercially as was the case before this function was launched).
Sam