[Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

Mark Wagner carnildo at gmail.com
Thu May 20 20:55:03 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:33, Still Waterising
<stillwaterising at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can accept that Commons may not fit under the definition of
> "secondary producer." However, when Wikipedians choose a sexually
> explicit image from Commons, the crop it and add a caption, this may
> fall under the "selection or alteration of the communication" exception.

You're misunderstanding the word "operators" here.  The only people
who matter for the "selection or alteration of the communication" are
the Wikimedia Foundation: the board members and the foundation
employees.  Everyone else, no matter what on-site title they have, is
simply a user of the site.

-- 
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]



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