yes I agree with Caroline/Secretlondon, too.
I think it would be better to avoid fair use etc. It's more safe.
--Optim
--- Anthere anthere8@yahoo.com wrote:
Caroline Ford a �crit:
many things I agree with
but just, hi Caroline (I read the whole mail wondering who Caroline was) :-)
Yann Forget wrote:
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Hi,
Le Sunday 01 February 2004 07:06, Alex R. a
�crit :
Police ledgers are not copyrightable, that
is public information.
Just like the news is not really
copyrightable. That is why you can
use pictures of famous people and famous
events. Unless their is
something particularly creative about the
photo there is just a
mechanical reproduction. Sort of like the copyright of
an old painting.
This is something new to me. Do you mean that, say, pictures of the 9/11
attacks are not copyrightable?
As well as pictures of the presidents of the
US?
We have a problem with the pictures of the
presidents of France which
are "� Pr�sidence de la R�publique.
Documentation fran�aise".
cf. http://www.elysee.fr/instit/fonct3.php Can we put these freely into Wikipedia?
Thanks, Yann
As always they are only talking about US
copyright law. As far as I know
we cannot do any of this in the UK, and I
imagine it will be the same in
France. Telephone directories are copyrighted in the
UK, for example.
This is why some of us are very unhappy about
"fair use", as it means
that we cannot ever host a mirror in the UK,
or have a fork.
We have no pictures of UK politicians for the
same reason.
What would be nice would be actual advice as
to what _we_ can do. I
understand that German wikipedia has banned
fair use images. I know that
most of what has been suggested is illegal
here and that British
contributors are cautious because the
international nature of the
project never seems to be considered.
Caroline (User:Secretlondon)
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