[Commons-l] Beer and copyright

[will at avery.homelinux.org]

Quoting Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com>:

> Some of you may recall that about 5-6 (?) weeks ago we had a slew of
> deletion requests of beer bottles and cans. If my memory is correct,
> virtually all of them were "keep" under the rationale that the images didn't
> fall under fair use or copyright violations for our purposes. There is a
> fresh DR on this today:
> 
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Pacifico_lata.jpg
> 
> And another just closed as delete the other day. We have numerous images
> that are ostensibly just, well, images of products:
> 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Marmite-Guinness_edition.JPG
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:A_bottle_of_Budweiser.JPG
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stolichnaya.jpg
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stoli.jpg
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ursuswodka.JPG
> 
> This isn't specific to alcohol products, of course--just went for those as
> they seem to be the topic of discussion. Should we be hosting such images?

When this was debated on the Village Pump last year Mike Godwin took what was to
me to me a surprisingly laid back stance.

Asked this question:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MGodwin&diff=147447747&oldid=145526398

... he gave this reply:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&diff=next&oldid=6777446

Will




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