[Commons-l] Commons licensing for chapter-owned copyrights

[Mike.lifeguard]

Some time ago, I suggested using Meta for this purpose. That would be
the best solution; the second-best being to use Commons and expanding
the scope to chapter logos and the like (as I suggested already:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Pikiwiki_logo.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=22003706)

Either would be acceptable. The status quo is not.

-Mike

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 11:16 -0700, Robert Rohde wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Andrew Turvey
> <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I've started a discussion at
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#Wikimedia_Chapter_Copyrights
> > regarding the policy of Commons on images where the copyright is owned by a
> > recognised chapter.
> >
> > Commons already recognises an exception for images whose copyrights are
> > owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. This proposal would widen that to cover
> > images whose copyrights are owned by recognised Wikimedia chapters.
> 
> For some time Mediawiki has had the technical capacity to use more
> than one shared media repository simultaneously.
> 
> My personal opinion is that non-free materials owned by the Foundation
> (or chapters, or other authorized uses, etc) should really be shunted
> to a separate repository with Commons reserved for truly free works.
> 
> This could be accomplished either by setting up a new wiki
> specifically for that purpose or by converting an existing wiki, such
> as Meta, to also serve as a shared repository.  The latter is my
> preference.  Move all the unfree content to Meta and configure the
> shared repository settings to also pull from Meta so that the various
> logos and what not would still be accessible to all the projects
> exactly as they are now.
> 
> I think the advantage of clearly separating free and unfree content
> outweighs the disadvantage of having to maintain two repositories.
> 
> -Robert Rohde
> 
> 
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