[Commons-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Pictures with free license about the World Economic Forum 2007 (WEF 2007)

[David Gerard]

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From: Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>
Date: 28 Mar 2008 14:34
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures with free license about the World
Economic Forum 2007 (WEF 2007)
To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org


Nicolas Guérin wrote:
 > The last World Economic Forum in Davos released on Flickr some pictures
 > about "very important people" with a free license compatible with Commons.
 > It seems that they intentionally released such pictures to be uploaded on
 > Commons, as this seems to be confirmed at
 > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjism89/WEF
 > and at http://blog.anthere.org/
 >
 > Unfortunately, many people on Commons don't believed that this might be true
 > and the view uploaded images were requested for deletion ( See
 > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Project%3AWEF )
 >
 > This situation should be clarified as soon as possible, otherwise all
 > uploaded pictures on Commons from WEF might be deleted, and it would be
 > really a pity.
 >
 > Guérin Nicolas


The situation IS clear.

 Benjism contacted them by email to double check:
 Their answer is copy pasted here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjism89/WEF


I also sent special thank you to the organizer of the technology
 pioneers. He did not answer "no, actually, Matthias Lüfkens is a banned
 organizer, and the Flickr licenses are just misleading on purpose".

 Ant



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