[Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

Mark (Markie) newsmarkie at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 29 20:57:05 UTC 2009


well if they/john bought the image rights then they would own it, meaning
that the credit is sufficient as it is.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Chris Down
<neuro.wikipedia at googlemail.com>wrote:

> That page doesn't attribute the creator of the original image, either.
>
> - Chris
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_I_mediaobject_d1e29885.png
> >
> > -Robert Rohde
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Mark (Markie)
> > <newsmarkie at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > i must admit i havent looked closely, but could you give us an example
> of
> > an
> > > image where the watermark can be clearly seen and is an issue?
> > >
> > > regards
> > >
> > > mark
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Chris Down
> > > <neuro.wikipedia at googlemail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > >> Well, either way, there's no harm in asking him to upload ones without
> > the
> > >> watermark.
> > >>
> > >> - Chris
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> > >> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Hoi,
> > >> > As far as I know, Commons has no such thing on watermarking. As
> > always,
> > >> > come
> > >> > up with better illustrations and you can replace them. This is an
> > >> > extraordinary situation anyway... Wikipedia has also this other
> "rule;
> > >> > Ignore all rules.. A good one to apply for now.
> > >> > Thanks,
> > >> >     GerardM
> > >> >
> > >> > 2009/1/29 Chris Down <neuro.wikipedia at googlemail.com>
> > >> >
> > >> > > As a note, the images are watermarked, and I have notified the
> user.
> > >> IUP
> > >> > > states that this should not occur.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > - Chris
> > >> > >
> > >> > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Thomas Dalton <
> > >> thomas.dalton at gmail.com
> > >> > > >wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > > 2009/1/28 Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>:
> > >> > > > > Wikipedia would have to write some kind of
> > >> > > > > special exception to every rule to allow this book to exist
> > there.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > We already have the only exception we need: IAR. (That doesn't
> > means
> > >> > > > Wikibooks wouldn't handle it better, though!)
> > >> > > >
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