On 7/26/06, Guettarda guettarda@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/26/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/26/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I uploaded the picture of Treanna on the english wikipedia. It was the picture he had on his user page. A bad image, but the only one we had for him. Certainly an image which will never be reused by anyone. But an image of Treanna.
The crime : it was uploaded as a non-derivative license. So, it is proposed for deletion.
And frankly, I can not ask Treanna any more if he would be nice enough to change that license to make it free by wikipedia definition.
Is it not, theoretically speaking, possible for someone just to assert ownership of it, and upload it under public domain? They can take full responsibility for any (highly unlikely) challenge to their ownership of it coming from the family or estate or whatever?
(but in any case, yes, this is a sad situation)
Steve
I'd sooner make the (somewhat suspect) claim of fair use - after all, it's an article about the subject, etc.
In thoery you could ask his estate but they might be difficult to get hold of.