[WikiEN-l] Copyright?
Steve Bennett
stevage at gmail.com
Wed May 3 19:54:11 UTC 2006
On 03/05/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> SPUI has repeatedly tagged http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sbekele
> as a copyvio of http://www.cbsintl.com/people.htm. I refused to
> speedy it on that basis, so SPUI blanked it and added the copyvio
> template. Sbekele self-identifies as Sophia Bekele, CEO of CBS
> International, and therefore presumably the copyright owner. Since
> this is user space, and the content is an "about us" bio, not
> commercial content, I think that blanking and deletion are a bit
> excessive. On the other hand, copyright is copyright I guess. What
> does the panel think?
This uninformed panel member thinks that people have a general right
to upload photos of themselves to their user pages.
Steve
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