[Foundation-l] Help requested on Commons copyright woes

[Luiz Augusto]

On 7/20/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I originally posted this to the commons-l list (
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2006-June/000277.html )
> to little response. So let's see if I can do any better with a wider
> audience.
>
> (...)




* "Agencia Brasil" license  (
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Ag%C3%AAncia_Brasil ) also
> has been debated several times. Related to the wider issue of, "if a
> website says "these images can be used freely, can we interpret that
> as allowing commercial use and derivative works, and thus
> Commons-compliant? Or do we need to check each time whether they
> intend to allow these specific rights?"


Agencia Brasil has changed your site license in 7 July 2006. Anything from
agenciabrasil.gov.br, including images, videos and text, are now under a
CC-by 2.5 Brazil license