Hi Anthere and all,
Brion Vibber a écrit:
On Feb 15, 2004, at 19:44, Anthere wrote:
By the way, is it okay that I relicense all the images I offered wikipedia as copyright by Anthere with permission, with a link to my user page, instead of under gfdl ?
No, that's not OK. Permission from the author means permission to put the image under GFDL. And as said Brion, that's may not even but legal for images already on Wikipedia.
Keep in mind that if you were to withdraw the GFDL license, the images would be removed from Wikipedia.
I have doubts. Many images are indicated copyrighted, but that the author gave permission for use. And they are in Wikipedia. When we wrote the images copyright pages with Alex, this case was mentionned, and we have some images under that copyright. Again, we think that it is better than no image at all, and better than image under fair use.
And no, it is not better than fair use, it is worse. I would tolerate fair use, because the law gives us the right to use the image *without* consent from the author. I won't tolerate a status where the author can change his/her mind at will. That's not acceptable for Wikipedia. And I would delete images under this kind of status.
So, where would be the difference ?
There is perhaps another possibility as well. That the description page of the image contains automatically the name of who uploaded it. At least, it would require that Anthony remove manually this information from all description pages before being able to claim copyright on them.
That would help sort out the images as I am trying to do on fr: And I feature to list one's own images would be most helpful. Or even to list all images from any author.
Because, if I am glad to offer my images under gfdl as a recognised author, I do not agree that my images are now registered as under copyright by Anthony DiPierro, with my name gone, perhaps for him to make money over my work.
Now that's very bad. we should take this case (and others of the same kind) seriously.
I will now put all my images under copyright with permission for Wikipedia only. But can I do it with the old images as well ?
Giving permission to Wikipedia only won't satisfy Wikipedia's GFDL requirements for 3rd-party redistribution, so we'll have to remove any such images.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
We have thousand of images to remove then. Let's start now.
We should at least give a proper status for all images because a lot of them may be used legally but we can't tell because there is no mention of the source nor the status.
Any way, I hope you had nice holidays Anthere. ;o)
Yann