"First of all, there is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reuse. If you still have any questions, feel free to let us know! We are always happy to help, and it will also help us improving the reuse page."
Thanks, that's a good reference.
Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
On 8/19/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
A recent statement by the FSF suggest they think otherwise.
Which is only a legal opinion, just like Rama's is. There have been no court cases over this, so it is not clear who is right. I would advise you to contact the author of the image. If they give you explicit permission to use the image without licensing your whole site GFDL, you should be fine. That is, imho, the safest option.
Bryan
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My hunch is that, since this issue is a bit vague, it's extremely unlikely that anyone could "steal" my website by claiming it falls under Creative Commons or GNU provisions based on the use of some images. However, I appreciate your suggestion of trying to contact the image's creator directly and requesting explicit permission to use it.
I hope to get some new articles with scattered images from Wikipedia online in a few days. Is it OK if I list some of them on this newslist and solicit feedback about how I'm using them? Most of the images will be automatically linked to larger images, so I'll have to include at least a simple caption (e.g. "Source/Credit"), linked to the proper citation.
Or I could simply link to the appropriate Wikipedia page, where visitors can find a larger image AND the technical/legal description - though that might not work if I have to add my own fine print (e.g. "I modified this image on July 7, 2007.").
I've begun using a database to organize my images, helping me keep track of the creator, permissions, etc.
On another note, does anyone know how Wikipedia creates a page with a .jpg extension that displays not only the image but text? An example is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mourning_Dove_2006.jpg
Thanks for all the tips.