[Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
What is the point of off list communication when you quote from these
communications ?
Thanks,
     GerardM

2009/1/30 Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net>

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > ... now the French chapter has dragged us into the world of commercial
> > publishing...
> >
> > As already pointed out by several people (including me [1]), this is
> > blatantly false. Could you please stop spreading this deliberate
> > misinformation?
>
>
> Your argument about "merely" accepting donations 'under the table' is weak
> and if anything issuing press releases impeaches the chapter further. As I
> said to GerardM off-list, selling drugs for charity is still selling drugs.
>
> Wikipedia's recent moves to both sell content commercially (even if simply
> by turning a blind eye to the practice) and attempt to filter it with
> flagged revisions (thus taking a big step from being a distributor towards
> being a publisher) are going to require some amount of review of existing
> practices.
>
> In any case this is all off-topic for the thread,
>
> Sam
>
> [1]
> >
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-January/049571.html
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Paumier
> > [[m:User:guillom]]
> >
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