On 5/27/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
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Putting images under a "for wikipedia use only" has a name. It is called a "copyright". So, in creating a tag "for wikipedia use only" to tag your pictures, you are specifically putting copyrighted content in Wikipedia. This is not alright as our goal is to provide "free" content.
I think it would be beneficial to be clearer about what you mean here. When you use 'copyrighted' in this and following paragraphs, you appear to not be referring to copyrighted works in general, but non-free copyrighted works.
Any image released under the GFDL or any Creative Commons licence must be copyrighted; if it were not, it would be public domain. Clearly we want to encourage these sorts of images (most of them) on Wikipedia. The three categories into which images and other works are divided are:
(a) Public domain works (b) Copyrighted works with 'free' licences (e.g. GFDL, certain Creative Commons licences) (c) Copyrighted works that are not 'free' (e.g. fair use images, and all other images)
(where 'free' is, of course, free libre, not free gratuit)
Please use some phrase other than 'copyrighted' to describe category (c). There is already far too much confusion about the use of the terms 'copyright' and 'public domain'. We should really make a point of trying to use precise terminology when proscribing behaviour.
Steve