Am 16.09.2011 13:50, schrieb Strainu:
2011/9/16 Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelgarte@googlemail.com:
We (the German authors) are bound to German law, since the page is directed at an major German readership (Schutzlandprinzip). But we also have to take care of US-law, since the servers are hosted inside the US. The later applies for the content the WMF hosts, not for us German contributers. But to be nice, we consider US-law as well.
Tobias, that I can understand. What I don't understand is why one should call emijrp stupid instead of explaining that this is a German Wikipedia rule ment to protect the majority of users users from inadvertently breaking the law of their country.
And I still don't understand why you called that example "stupid".
Strainu
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I call this example "stupid", since it was constructed to make a point, even so it was lack of knowledge to propose it that way and it creates an awkward subtopic with no relation to the initial problem (see headline) whatsoever.
This was the blatantly assumption/imputation that the image filter would be fine, since we already self censor ourself; which isn't true. We just respect the copyright law, to protect the readers/reusers. (Print a book with that image and publish it inside Germany. If noticed by the original author/photographer you might be in trouble).
Tobias