[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Principles of organisation - who do we serve?

[Anthony]

On 11/14/06, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Technically, anything that isn't public domain is copyrighted. Even if it's
> GFDLed.
>
> But generally in a Wikimedia context, when people say "copyrighted" they're
> referring to the icky all-rights-reserved stuff.
>
And therein lies one of the big problems, as what constitutes "the
icky all-rights-reserved stuff" is much harder to define and explain
to people than "copyrighted media".

Simply referring to "the icky all-rights-reserved stuff" as
"copyrighted" only serves to confuse people more.  I hope that's not
what was happening here.

Anthony

> On 11/14/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anthony wrote:
> > > On 11/14/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> If there are Wikimedians who are advocating housing copyrighted media
> > >> in Commons, speak up now, because we need to get clear on why that is
> > >> not cool immediately.
> > >>
> > > Of course we advocate housing copyrighted media in commons.  Commons
> > > is not limited to public domain material.
> > >
> >
> > ... permission to stab him, please?
> >
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