Would the copyright holders of said images ever be able to reasonably make a claim to copyright? How could they prove that? They can't, probably, assuming they are still alive.
Mark
On 23/03/2008, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
"Freely usable in any practical sense" was not the standard adopted by WMF in the licensing resolution. They adopted a very stringent standard for what the can be considered free content and hosted on the WMF servers outside of EDPs. Perhaps the board should revisit this resolution. But I don't think following a different standard in practice then has been outlined by the WMF is a good idea.
BirgitteSB
(Wikipedia)" newyorkbrad@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to me that common sense should be used in this as in all other matters. A 60-year-old photograph that has never been the subject of any claim of ownership and which has been repeatly used in multiple media around the world without challenge is freely usable in any practical sense.
Newyorkbrad
On 3/23/08, SlimVirgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Delirium
delirium@hackish.org wrote:
This came up in the discussion, but since the
German occupation during
WW2 is considered illegitimate under
international law, Polish law
applies, even in areas where the de jure Polish
government didn't have
de facto control. The discussion is here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Category:Stroop_...
Does this mean that the images taken inside
Auschwitz can be marked
PD, either as PD in Poland or PD in the U.S.
because seized enemy
property? We've been told by several Wikipedians
who specialize in
images that we could only claim fair use for them,
which has meant the
images have been challenged quite a few times by
people who say we
can't claim fair use unless we know the name of
the copyright holder.
We've had several attempts to delete some of them
on that basis.
Sarah
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