[WikiEN-l] Uploading images should be a privilige, not a right

[Ray Saintonge]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>On 7/21/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>We could always go the German way and prevent all non-copyleft images.
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>>PS. I just wanted to check I was accurate in making this statement. I
>>decided Coca Cola would be a good article to use to check
>>(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_Cola) as they are presumably unable
>>to display the logo. They do show the logo in the form of photographs
>>of the side of lorries showing the logo and practically nothing else.
>>Surely such a photo can't be claimed to be copyleft?
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>In germany they have a legal concept called "right of panorama" which
>appears to be intended to address cases of incidental inclusion (as
>we'd know them in the US).  The idea is that the fact that the
>populated world is saturated with copyrighted works shouldn't inhibit
>you from taking pictures in public...
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In the US much of this would be covered by the "scènes à faire" doctrine.

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