On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:24 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This is a sorta-technical sorta-copyright issue. InstantCommons is great stuff, it spreads free content with correct attribution in a marvellous manner.
But Commons contains a certain number of non-free files, specifically Wikimedia logos and so forth. I just noticed (on a wiki using InstantCommons) that these are served up through it just the same.
Is there any relatively simple way to stop this happening? (Including not caring.)
Probably. I think not caring is the best bet, though. It's up to reusers to ensure that they comply with copyright law. Maybe they'll be using the logos for fair use -- I don't see why we should worry about that any more than we worry about InstantCommons users reusing CC-BY-SA images without linking to their licenses.