[Foundation-l] Stroop report

[Birgitte SB]

"Freely usable in any practical sense" was not the
standard adopted by WMF in the licensing resolution. 
They adopted a very stringent standard for what the
can be considered free content and hosted on the WMF
servers outside of EDPs.  Perhaps the board should
revisit this resolution.  But I don't think following
a different standard in practice then has been
outlined by the WMF is a good idea.

BirgitteSB

(Wikipedia)" <newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems to me that common sense should be used in
> this as in all
> other matters. A 60-year-old photograph that has
> never been the
> subject of any claim of ownership and which has been
> repeatly used in
> multiple media around the world without challenge is
> freely usable in
> any practical sense.
> 
> Newyorkbrad
> 
> On 3/23/08, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Delirium
> <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> > > This came up in the discussion, but since the
> German occupation during
> > >  WW2 is considered illegitimate under
> international law, Polish law
> > >  applies, even in areas where the de jure Polish
> government didn't have
> > >  de facto control. The discussion is here:
> > >
> >
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Category:Stroop_Report
> >
> > Does this mean that the images taken inside
> Auschwitz can be marked
> > PD, either as PD in Poland or PD in the U.S.
> because seized enemy
> > property? We've been told by several Wikipedians
> who specialize in
> > images that we could only claim fair use for them,
> which has meant the
> > images have been challenged quite a few times by
> people who say we
> > can't claim fair use unless we know the name of
> the copyright holder.
> > We've had several attempts to delete some of them
> on that basis.
> >
> > Sarah
> >
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