[WikiEN-l] Public Domain and Non-Commercial at the same time

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Sat Oct 14 15:50:53 UTC 2006


Many of them appear to be official seals, for which an appropriate fair 
use rationale could indeed be given.

Others, like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Food.jpg

which is linked from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_the_Philippines

can and should be deleted immediately and replaced as soon as possible 
with a free alternative.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jinggoy.jpg
is a photo of a living, actively serving politician.  This is another 
one which should be deleted and replaced with a free alternative.


Bogdan Giusca wrote:
> There's a peculiar copyright case for the governmental works
> from Philippines.
> 
> Apparently, they are at the same time in the Public Domain
> and under a Non-Commercial/Permission license, or at least
> the current template claims so:
> 
>    "this work is only available in the public domain under a
>    non-commercial and permission-based license"
> 
> Also, it claims that the images should be used "in accordance with
> Wikipedia's fair use policy", but none of the 500+ images have any
> fair-use rationale...
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-PhilippinesGov
> 
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