"Freely usable in any practical sense" was not the
standard adopted by WMF in the licensing resolution.
They adopted a very stringent standard for what the
can be considered free content and hosted on the WMF
servers outside of EDPs. Perhaps the board should
revisit this resolution. But I don't think following
a different standard in practice then has been
outlined by the WMF is a good idea.
BirgitteSB
(Wikipedia)" <newyorkbrad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It seems to me that common sense should be used in
this as in all
other matters. A 60-year-old photograph that has
never been the
subject of any claim of ownership and which has been
repeatly used in
multiple media around the world without challenge is
freely usable in
any practical sense.
Newyorkbrad
On 3/23/08, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Delirium
<delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
> This came up in the discussion, but since
the
German occupation during
> WW2 is considered illegitimate under
international law, Polish law
> applies, even in areas where the de jure
Polish
government didn't have
de facto
control. The discussion is here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Category:Stroop…
Does this mean that the images taken inside
Auschwitz can be marked
PD, either as PD in Poland or PD in the U.S.
because seized enemy
property? We've been told by several
Wikipedians
who specialize in
images that we could only claim fair use for
them,
which has meant the
images have been challenged quite a few times by
people who say we
can't claim fair use unless we know the name
of
the copyright holder.
We've had several attempts to delete some of
them
on that basis.
Sarah
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