--- Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
This is beginning to become somewhat of a significant problem...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Promophoto&diff=25617...
On October 15, someone changed [[Template:Promophoto]] quite significantly. The old text read that "This work is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source [...]" The new text reads that "This work is a copyrighted promotional photograph of a person that is '''known''' to have come from a media kit or similar source."
I can see the reasoning, that works which are not from a media kit or similar source are not acceptable. But I think that changing the text of such a template is very dangerous.
Looking at "what links here", there seem to be several instances of tagged images which probably did not come from a media kit or similar source. That is to say, I can't really say for certain that they definitely didn't come from a media kit or similar source, but they give no indication that they were, and they were tagged before this came into play.
This is bad for oh so many reasons. I won't get into the legal ones, in part because I'm not sure who exactly is to blame, but it should be enough reason that someone might come along, see this image, and assume that it's part of a press kit, because, well, *it says it is*.
This is indeed very bad for the reasons you give. I think the old wording is better. Also, 'being part of a press kit' is too high a bar to prove and I'm not sure if 'being part of a press kit' is well defined enough anyway.
Just my IANAL 2 cents.
-- mav
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