On the dutch wikipedia I, together whit the others off cource, are looking out for possibel copyright violations of images.
There is a system where there is asked permission to the owner of pictures and the credit and the permission is included to the picture discription page.
The problem is users are importing pictures from other wikipedias whit a note like "from the English wikipedia" or "from the german wikipedia".
And when you look at that image on that wikipedia almost never there is a comment about the source of that image.
Also some Wikipedias have a different view about clear copyright violations, like this; http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin
I have to explain to a user of wikipedia NL that the image she has made by taking a frame from a televison broadcast not can be used. But it is very difficult to inforce a strong copyright policy when the other wikipedias are not taking the image copyright more serious.
I have to explain to a user of wikipedia NL that the image she has made by taking a frame from a televison broadcast not can be used. But it is very difficult to inforce a strong copyright policy when the other wikipedias are not taking the image copyright more serious.
Instead of deleting images copied from the English Wikipedia which you suspect are violations, I suggest trying to educate your users to add a more comprehensive note like
"From the English Wikipedia, original photo in the public domain (NASA)." "From the English Wikipedia, by en:User:Foo, contributed under the GNU FDL." "From the English Wikipedia, used there under US fair use law." "From the English Wikipedia, no source cited."
Then people who care about copyright violations can inquire on the English Wikipedia (e.g. put a notice on the user's talk page) where no source has been cited. In fair use cases, it has to be checked if a local equivalent exists (usually the case in European countries). In cases of violations, it should be easy to get the respective image deleted from en by simply putting it on the Votes for deletion page. Then it should be equally easy to delete it from the other Wikipedias which use it.
Regards,
Erik
Giskart wrote:
There is a system where there is asked permission to the owner of pictures and the credit and the permission is included to the picture discription page.
What kind of permission is asked? The only acceptable permission for us is quite strong: the image needs to be released under the GNU FDL, or under some compatible conditions.
Merely asking people for permission to use the image here, on our website, is not good, because it makes licensing a nightmare.
Also, as a matter of principle, we are Debian-like in our attitude, i.e. we prefer free to non-free very strongly. (Fair use is a complication here, though.)
I have to explain to a user of wikipedia NL that the image she has made by taking a frame from a televison broadcast not can be used. But it is very difficult to inforce a strong copyright policy when the other wikipedias are not taking the image copyright more serious.
Actually, a frame from a television broadcast is one of the easier "fair use" examples.
--Jimbo
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