[Foundation-l] Commons copyright violotion and OTRS

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

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Le 20 juil. 05 à 21:06, Gerard Meijssen a écrit :

> Robert Scott Horning wrote:
>
>
>> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hoi,
>>> On OTRS I received a complaint that some photo's were taken from  
>>> a website. As the photo's were located on Commons, I informed the  
>>> gentleman to go to the Commons administrators. In this case they  
>>> were world war II photo's of machine guns. I told the gentleman  
>>> that even if the photos were taken from his website, it would not  
>>> matter when the photos are already in the pubic domain.
>>>
>>> The question, as it is not possible for a Dutch admin to remove  
>>> photos from Commons and as it has no impact to remove the  
>>> pictures from an article, is it correct to refer this gentleman  
>>> to the Commons admins or is there / should there be a procedure  
>>> for these issues.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Commons, if you think there is a copyright tag you can throw on  
>> images you think are in dispute, which is the {{Copyvio}} tag, and  
>> any user can add that onto the image.  You don't need to be an  
>> admin. Please make sure you put in a reason on the image page when  
>> you think there is a problem, or try and contact the user who  
>> uploaded the content (to be kind to a potential new user who  
>> thought uploading random stuff from web pages was appropriate).   
>> The tag will get flagged to a category which the admins on Commons  
>> check very regularly, and will delete if it is against Commons  
>> policy.
>>
>>
> Hoi,
> In this case Commons states that it is public domain. There is this  
> user who has just another WW II website and is the opinion that we  
> copied his website. I am not completely aware of how these things  
> are done on Commons and, I do not agree with some of the procedures  
> that I do know. The thing is with OTRS, I am not just some user. By  
> notifying me of this issue the gentleman may think he is talking to  
> the WMF itself while in fact it has nothing to do with the  
> nl.wikipedia. So the issue is also a bit bigger than just this and  
> that is why I ask for some guidance.
>
> Thanks,
>    GerardM
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