[Foundation-l] Pictures with free license about the World Economic Forum 2007 (WEF 2007)

[Benjamin Smith]

Hi,

The situation IS indeed clear. As I was surprised by the licence I had 
seen on those pictures on Flickr, I sent them a mail to check there 
wasn't a mistake. They have actually done that on purpose so that 
Wikimedia projects could use those pictures. And the fact that the 
Flickr account does belong to the WEF makes no doubt, as there is a link 
from the WEF's website to that Flickr account.

Yours,

Benjamin, aka Benjism89

Florence Devouard a écrit :
> Nicolas Guérin wrote:
>   
>> The last World Economic Forum in Davos released on Flickr some pictures
>> about "very important people" with a free license compatible with Commons.
>> It seems that they intentionally released such pictures to be uploaded on
>> Commons, as this seems to be confirmed at
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjism89/WEF
>> and at http://blog.anthere.org/
>>
>> Unfortunately, many people on Commons don't believed that this might be true
>> and the view uploaded images were requested for deletion ( See
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Project%3AWEF )
>>
>> This situation should be clarified as soon as possible, otherwise all
>> uploaded pictures on Commons from WEF might be deleted, and it would be
>> really a pity.
>>
>> Guérin Nicolas
>>     
>
> The situation IS clear.
>
> Benjism contacted them by email to double check:
> Their answer is copy pasted here: 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjism89/WEF
>
> I also sent special thank you to the organizer of the technology 
> pioneers. He did not answer "no, actually, Matthias Lüfkens is a banned 
> organizer, and the Flickr licenses are just misleading on purpose".
>
> Ant
>
>
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