[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] "(image) quotation policy" proposed in Korean Wikipedia and Commons

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

Actually, being a lawyer and a PhD candidate in copyright law, I think 
do have "legal mind" :-)

And there are some others on juriwiki-l too :-)

Is copyright.or.kr a governement institution?

Anyway, I know some legal scholars in Korea, and I can contact them to 
obtain more precise information. But it will take some time.

I'll follow the link and I forward this to juriwiki-l

Best,

Jean-Baptiste Soufron

Puzzlet Chung wrote:
> User:WonYong, who insisted that the contents of Wikipedia should be
> restricted by National Security Law weeks ago (
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2006-January/043321.html
> ), claims that copyrighted images can be uploaded to Korean Wikipedia
> and Wikimedia Commons,  through "quotation policy."
>
> Some months ago, WonYong wanted to upload image files from South
> Korean government, but found that they are copyrighted and not allowed
> to be uploaded. Now he came up with a new (proposed) policy that
> allows uploading almost any image files. His point is that even
> copyrighted images can be _quoted_ in Wikipedia articles, just like
> citations in academic articles. He says that he won't no longer need
> fair use, which he had proposed in Korean Wikipedia before.
>
> South Korean copyright law states that publicized materials may be
> quoted for report, research, or educational purposes, within a
> reasonable scope. A bulletin board in the Copyright Discussion and
> Arbitration Committee website (http://copyright.or.kr/) answered that
> this "quotation" article of the bill is not suitable for writing
> encyclopedias.
>
> The problem is that he pushes his policy in not only Korean Wikipedia
> but Wikimedia Commons. He says he distrusts copyright.or.kr, and
> doubts that other Wikipedians and those in Commons do have "legal
> mind."
>
> Ongoing discussion in Wikimedia Commons is here:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#ALLOW_COPYRIGHTED_IMAGES.21.21
>
> And the diff is here:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons%3AVillage_pump&diff=1233753&oldid=1233434
>
> Puzzlet Chung
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