[WikiEN-l] Grandmother copyrighted anonymous works
Jimmy Wales
jwales at wikia.com
Mon Sep 11 13:39:48 UTC 2006
David Gerard wrote:
> Well, yeah. Closest I've come to this is e.g. uploading an image by
> [[:en:User:Arkady Rose]] (my girlfriend) to Commons because she can't
> be bothered creating Yet Another Login. I uploaded it myself and said
> it was by her and put there under copyleft-self (dual GFDL and
> CC-by-sa) with her permission. If some hardworking wikilawyer started
> claiming the image must therefore be deleted as a risk to the project
> (what if EVERYONE did this?) then I fear my legendary patience and
> calm might slip.
The key here is: we trust you to have done the right thing.
We can do that with people we know and trust.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:IMG_5934.JPG
is an image I uploaded for someone else.
--Jimbo
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