[WikiEN-l] Creation of user photographs

[Steve Bennett]

On 5/21/06, Peter Mackay <peter.mackay at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Please don't be crass. Possibly the photographer went to immense trouble
> to
> take a photograph. It doesn't matter, anyway. We can't just claim
> copyright
> over photographs because we think that the photographer didn't have much
> creative input.



Just querying your use of "we". Do you mean "Wikipedia cannot claim
copyright"? If so, no problem, Wikipedia does not claim copyright over
photos contributed to it. Or do you mean "Wikipedia's editors should not
falsely assert copyright"? In that case, true, but it's really their
problem, not ours. We're not going to get sued over it.

Steve