Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
that one may not upload a small, low resolution line drawing of the USS Enterprise? without violating copyright?
Leaving aside the baseless allegation of trolling, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anti-Star_Trek_Cabal_logo.png is possibly going to be deleted for that reason.
To quote http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Derivative_works
And no, it doesn't matter whether Mickey Mouse is printed on a T-shirt, which you bought with your own money and which is worn by yourself while you're walking in a public place, loudly reciting the GFDL. That doesn't at all give you the right to take a picture of the T-shirt, cut out Mickey Mouse and upload it as "free" material. Nothing you'll ever do, whether you draw Pikachu with your own crayons or sculpt a giant Sailor Moon figurine, will ever lead to the point where you magically turn copyrighted material into "free" material.
Yet, if you take a photo of your friend in Disneyland, you can upload it as a free picture even if some kid in the background happens to be wearing a Mickey Mouse T-shirt.
Probably even if it's you friend who's wearing the T-shirt, as long as the main subject of the image is your friend and not the shirt.
Anyway, I just posted a much longer message on this subject, so I'll keep this one short.