"Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com schrieb:
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.
Then again, reality is that we don't. We don't even remove images of which it is very likely that we are not allowed to either use or redistribute them. Someone uploads, and we keep it. Someone doubts, someone else mumbles 'fair use', and we keep it. I would favor removing all images of which the origin is not clear, except when they are old enough that copyright can be assumed to have been expired.
Andre Engels
Andre Engels wrote:
"Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com schrieb:
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.
Then again, reality is that we don't. We don't even remove images of which it is very likely that we are not allowed to either use or redistribute them. Someone uploads, and we keep it. Someone doubts, someone else mumbles 'fair use', and we keep it. I would favor removing all images of which the origin is not clear, except when they are old enough that copyright can be assumed to have been expired.
Once upon a time ;-) I implemented a checkbox system where the uploading party has to choose "GFDL/PD/fair use/something else" upon upload. Would be nice to automatically categorize images, or at least assign blame to a specific user ;-)
Or we just ignore the issue until the images have passed into the PD, in a few hundred years or so...
Magnus
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