[WikiEN-l] Picture copyrights - an interesting article

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On 2/1/07, Arwel Parry <arwel at cartref.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> There's an interesting article on picture copyrights in todays'
> "Guardian", "A picture paints a thousand invoices"
> http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2002905,00.html
>
> It might be worth linking to this article when people complain about
> non-free images being deleted!



Well, but Wikimedia comes under the DMCA, which has more formalized ways of
providing for requests to remove copyrighted material, as well as a "safe
harbor" provision. So it's not quite as bad as the UK case, it seems.

(In any case, Corbis includes a number of images in their archives which are
not under copyright in the United States, but makes no distinction on their
image pages between these and images to which they own the copyright to. So
just because something is in Corbis doesn't mean it is a copyright issue,
necessarily, though it is usually pretty easy to tell which Corbis copyright
claims are bunk, i.e. claims to materials created by the US Government or
created in the 19th century).

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