[Foundation-l] Help requested on Commons copyright woes

[geni]

On 7/21/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> As much of a problem as the above may be for us, it's not the worst of
> it:  Simmlar cases to Bridgeman v. Corel have come up in the UK and
> the decision has been exactly the opposite.
>

Of course Bridgeman v. Corel did include a view that UK law would
produce the same result. I suspect that there are number of people
trying to make sure that there is no repeate case in the UK.

> I'd be much happier if we had people sneaking into galleries and
> taking pictures (no flash please)...

It is posible you could get permission from smaller galleries.

> Like above I don't think this is (yet) the biggest of our problems.
>

As long as we make sure to lable where we are useing it it should not
be a massive problem to fix.


> This is just another reason that we should reduce our reliance on
> image scavengers and instead ask people to upload their works directly
> and with full knoweldge of the consiquences However, people seem far
> more interested in running bots to scavange rather than sending out
> email invitations to join our effort.  One pumps your contrib count
> and makes you look good, the other brings you no positive attention
> but helps the project more.
>

Are you sure that exposeing wikipedians to the outside is a good idea?

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geni