[Foundation-l] Smurfs Movie is infringing on wikipedia copyright

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 23:59:54 UTC 2011


On 17 December 2011 23:09, Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Well thanks for the great explanation, so the did their homework.
> now what about the example that is being given to kids, just google
> it, download an image from wikipedia and then use it in your
> advertising campaign.
> How could wikipedia allow someone to use the wikipedia logo in such a manner?
> mike

Well we do have quite a collection of public domain images where you
can do precisely that. Realistically I think we have to accept that
most films are not going to include extended scenes covering copyright
and free licenses.


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geni



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