[Foundation-l] Stroop report

[Mark Williamson]

Would the copyright holders of said images ever be able to reasonably
make a claim to copyright? How could they prove that? They can't,
probably, assuming they are still alive.

Mark

On 23/03/2008, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "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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