On 7/27/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/27/06, Death Phoenix originaldeathphoenix@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/27/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 7/26/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@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=239605... ].
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.
Ah, yes, looking at the rest of the text in the image in the French page makes it clear. This leads to another question. What do we do when we can't get the original contributor's permission, apart from contacting his estate? I have to agree with Anthere in that this seems a little heartless. It's not like the Deceased Wikipedians page is meant for the encyclopedia, but rather, it's meant for the community.