On 21 February 2010 11:15, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
Legal decision should be taken out from project's communities "jurisdiction" and given into hands of professional lawyers or at least people who had copyright law practical training.
While I don't agree that we need to take this away from the community and hand it to a team of lawyers, I must say that the "practical training" caught my eye.
Would it be possible for the Foundation to get Mike--and other people who actually know what they're talking about--to get a "guide to handling copyright questions" together? It would probably help a lot of people who are unclear on some points, as well as help remove some grey areas (like the scenario that brought us here now). This may be a terrible idea, but I'm just throwing it out there.
-Chad
Not really. Mike is a US lawyer. I'm not sure how much it would cost to get enough lawyers to put together say:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama
but I doubt it would be practical.
Commons does have a number of help pages:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Problematic_sources
and en of course has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions