On 7/21/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As much of a problem as the above may be for us,
it's not the worst of
it: Simmlar cases to Bridgeman v. Corel have come up in the UK and
the decision has been exactly the opposite.
Of course Bridgeman v. Corel did include a view that UK law would
produce the same result. I suspect that there are number of people
trying to make sure that there is no repeate case in the UK.
I'd be much happier if we had people sneaking into
galleries and
taking pictures (no flash please)...
It is posible you could get permission from smaller galleries.
Like above I don't think this is (yet) the biggest
of our problems.
As long as we make sure to lable where we are useing it it should not
be a massive problem to fix.
This is just another reason that we should reduce our
reliance on
image scavengers and instead ask people to upload their works directly
and with full knoweldge of the consiquences However, people seem far
more interested in running bots to scavange rather than sending out
email invitations to join our effort. One pumps your contrib count
and makes you look good, the other brings you no positive attention
but helps the project more.
Are you sure that exposeing wikipedians to the outside is a good idea?
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geni