Hi,
The situation IS indeed clear. As I was surprised by the licence I had
seen on those pictures on Flickr, I sent them a mail to check there
wasn't a mistake. They have actually done that on purpose so that
Wikimedia projects could use those pictures. And the fact that the
Flickr account does belong to the WEF makes no doubt, as there is a link
from the WEF's website to that Flickr account.
Yours,
Benjamin, aka Benjism89
Florence Devouard a écrit :
Nicolas Guérin wrote:
The last World Economic Forum in Davos released
on Flickr some pictures
about "very important people" with a free license compatible with Commons.
It seems that they intentionally released such pictures to be uploaded on
Commons, as this seems to be confirmed at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjism89/WEF
and at
http://blog.anthere.org/
Unfortunately, many people on Commons don't believed that this might be true
and the view uploaded images were requested for deletion ( See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Project%3AWEF )
This situation should be clarified as soon as possible, otherwise all
uploaded pictures on Commons from WEF might be deleted, and it would be
really a pity.
Guérin Nicolas
The situation IS clear.
Benjism contacted them by email to double check:
Their answer is copy pasted here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjism89/WEF
I also sent special thank you to the organizer of the technology
pioneers. He did not answer "no, actually, Matthias Lüfkens is a banned
organizer, and the Flickr licenses are just misleading on purpose".
Ant
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