[Foundation-l] Problems using pictures from Commons in Blogger - making it more of a stock photo repository

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I have never had a DCMA report filed against me.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 16 August 2010 23:34, <wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > Blogger is the platform I use now for many years to blog about the
> subjects
> > that are important in my appreciation of a Wiki world. At first I did not
> > illustrate my blogposts but thanks to Pfctdayelise I started to pepper my
> > blog posts with illustrations.
> >
> > At this moment it is no longer possible for me to upload pictures to
> > blogger. The message that I get is that I have to ensure that I have a
> > license for the pictures that I upload. This is true for pictures that I
> > have downloaded from Commons and cropped, it is for screen shots of the
> > interaction with the Blogger user interface..
> >
>
> What did you do? I don't use blogger myself as I'm damned if I'm going
> to give Google (thieving bastards) the time of day. Besides I have two
> sites on which I've installed wordpress mu and drupal. But anyway I've
> just created a blogger account and had no creating a post with images.
> Blogger Blogs that I follow seem to be uploading images too.
>
> Did someone file a DMCA report against your blog?
>
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