[WikiEN-l] Dead wikipedians and how to really make a project boring to death

[geni]

On 7/27/06, Death Phoenix <originaldeathphoenix at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/26/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I think you are all missing Antheres point. Who cares whether it's
> > > fair use or not? Do we really have to be so anal about the rules that
> > > we will infact bring this to IfD, instead of just quietly ignoring the
> > > copyright issue in this very special unique case. We are people, for
> > > christs sake, not automatons! Sometimes, process is not that
> > > important.
> > >
> > > --Oskar
> >
> > I don't see why it's such a special unique case.  Wikipedia's
> > copyright policies are flawed, and this is one example of it.
> >
> > By the way, isn't there a rule that fair use only applies in articles?
> >
>
> Am I missing something here? The image in the fr-wikipedia is under
> CreativeCommons, and this was made by the owner of the copyright, Treanna
> himself [
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Norbert3.jpg&diff=2396051&oldid=701771].
> Doesn't mean that the image on en-wikipedia also counts as CreativeCommons?
>
>
> (that's diving right back into the process part of this whole thing, though)
>
> --DP


ND NoDerivs. Not a free enough lisence for wikipedia.

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geni