Gregory Maxwell:
On 5/18/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
All images which are for non-commercial only use and by permission only are not acceptable for Wikipedia and _will be deleted_. We have tolerated them for some time, but only as an interim measure during the time when images which were previously not properly tagged could be tagged.
What about images from STOCK.XCHNG?
We have cleared this already on the Wikimedia Commons. In short, the terms of use are invalid, and the click-through declaration on the upload submission form of the site is what matters, since there is no transfer of rights to Stock.Xchng. If the uploader -- the copyright holder -- specifies that there are no usage restrictions on the photo, we can use it as such.
See: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Stock.xchng_images/vote http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Stock.xchng_images
All best,
Erik