On 1/25/07, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 24, 2007, at 9:50 PM, geni wrote:
That differes from our copyright policy how?
Our copyright policy is mostly intuitive,
False.
It includes elements of law so beautifully complex in their construction that a lifetime of study would hardly scratch the surface
and can be explained in a sentence in such a way that an average person can understand it. It's slightly trickier with images, but only slightly since we've been cracking down pretty hard on "fair use" of late.
You have no idea do you? You really have no idea.
wil still have 100Ks of "fair use" images. Will have stuff under very complex areas of copyright law and downright insane ones.
Do you know what the copyright status of Works of the Philippines government really are? Image scans made in the UK? engravings under crown copyright?
Did you follow the PD soviet debate?
The average person doesn't have a hope in Hades and we are forever playing catchup.
Copyvio is not nearly as widespread as lack of sourcing. Copyvio is not a newbie- unfriendly concept.
Oh but it is. oh but it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_unknown_copyright_status http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_no_copyright_tag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_unknown_source