On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Durova
<nadezhda.durova(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The United States Holocoaust Memorial Museum has
a symbiotic relationship
with Wikipedia also, but in a way that raises no objections. The image
below is featured in different versions (restored and unrestored) on both
Commons and en:Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_0…
Durova, I'm very pleased to see this kind of image being featured, but
I'm wondering what kind of licence you used. Several of us have had
lots of problems with Holocaust images, forced to claim fair use
because of the age and lack of a release, but with fair use sometimes
contested too, because we often don't know who the copyright holder
is.
Sometimes we outsmart ourselves with the extent that we abide by a
strict reading of copyright laws. The irony here is that a photograph
taken by someone working in the employ of the Nazi government is clearly
in the public domain. On the other hand a sympathetic private snapshot
taken no later than 1945 by an unidentifiable individual who may with
all his descendants have met a dreadful fate is tied up in red tape for
many years yet over such things as the US non-recognition of the rule of
the shorter term. Who are we protecting with this?
Ec
