I keep getting email from people asking permission to use stuff. Is there a simple permissions page on wikimediafoundation.org? I'm thinking of something that can be linked from [[Contact us]] the way [[Press room]] is.
(The request that provoked me to write this was a recent request for logo use permission in a press article about Wikipedia. Which, as I understand it, we allow fairly freely. But I can't find the page on it.)
I'm thinking of something simpler than the reuse page I started on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reuse - possibly something that just says:
* Content: almost all text and images on Wikimedia sites are ''not'' owned by Wikimedia. You can reuse them under the relevant free-content licence, or by direct arrangement with the creator. See (link to above commons page). * Wikipedia/Wikimedia logos: see [[logo use policy]]. * ...
- d.
On 23/11/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(The request that provoked me to write this was a recent request for logo use permission in a press article about Wikipedia. Which, as I understand it, we allow fairly freely. But I can't find the page on it.)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press
- d.
On 23/11/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/11/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(The request that provoked me to write this was a recent request for logo use permission in a press article about Wikipedia. Which, as I understand it, we allow fairly freely. But I can't find the page on it.)
Oh, *marvellous*. I've always faffed about what to do with "can we use your logo" OTRS queries.
On 23/11/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, *marvellous*. I've always faffed about what to do with "can we use your logo" OTRS queries.
Yep! And if the editability of that page is a problem, [[Contact us]] on the foundation wiki now says "LOOK, JUST USE OUR LOGOS, OK?!"
- d.
On 23/11/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/11/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, *marvellous*. I've always faffed about what to do with "can we use your logo" OTRS queries.
Yep! And if the editability of that page is a problem, [[Contact us]] on the foundation wiki now says "LOOK, JUST USE OUR LOGOS, OK?!"
Can we have a blanket blurb for "I'd like to use a screenshot of the site", too? I understand that one's legally flakier due to it containing content which is not ours, but a permission to use all the bits of it which are ours and a reassuring remark about fair-use for display purposes or somesuch...
Op 24-nov-2006, om 10:59 heeft Andrew Gray het volgende geschreven:
Can we have a blanket blurb for "I'd like to use a screenshot of the site", too? I understand that one's legally flakier due to it containing content which is not ours, but a permission to use all the bits of it which are ours and a reassuring remark about fair-use for display purposes or somesuch...
I'm new to this list and haven't paid attention to the discussion up till now, but I guess it would be something like this?
"Due to the nature of the licenses used by the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, you are legally entitled to create and use screenshots of the projects. While you are generally only required to attribute the screenshot to their original copyright holders and keep it under the same license as ours, we suggest that you refer to the exact license of the project you are interested in for more information. It should be noted that the projects may contain fair use images; refer to the fair use clause of your region's copyright law to assess whether your use is fair as well."
Michiel Sikma michiel@thingmajig.org Web designer and programmer
On 24/11/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Can we have a blanket blurb for "I'd like to use a screenshot of the site", too? I understand that one's legally flakier due to it containing content which is not ours, but a permission to use all the bits of it which are ours and a reassuring remark about fair-use for display purposes or somesuch...
I'd rather leave it as "we give permission for use of our logos; the text belongs to someone else so we can't give you permission for it, use it under the author's license or ask them directly; or it's almost certainly fair use/fair dealing in most sane jurisdictions; check with your lawyer if you are at all unsure." Something as simply-worded as possible.
- d.
On 11/24/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/11/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/11/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, *marvellous*. I've always faffed about what to do with "can we use your logo" OTRS queries.
Yep! And if the editability of that page is a problem, [[Contact us]] on the foundation wiki now says "LOOK, JUST USE OUR LOGOS, OK?!"
Can we have a blanket blurb for "I'd like to use a screenshot of the site", too? I understand that one's legally flakier due to it containing content which is not ours, but a permission to use all the bits of it which are ours and a reassuring remark about fair-use for display purposes or somesuch...
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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On a slightly off-topic, but OTRS stuff.
Shouldn't we be requesting pictures to be uploaded with Creative Commons besides or alternatively to GFDL? Arguments to be found here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
Maybe somre review to the templates at [[m:OTRS/en]] may be due.
Pedro Sánchez User:Drini
On 23/11/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking of something simpler than the reuse page I started on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reuse - possibly something that just says:
- Content: almost all text and images on Wikimedia sites are ''not''
owned by Wikimedia. You can reuse them under the relevant free-content licence, or by direct arrangement with the creator. See (link to above commons page).
- Wikipedia/Wikimedia logos: see [[logo use policy]].
- ...
OK, I've edited the English-language version of the [[Contact us]] page and the [[Press room]] page:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Contact_us http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room
Please have a look and see if I've written anything really wrong or horrible.
(cc'd directly to Danny and Brad for obvious reasons!)
- d.
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