[WikiEN-l] Nuke [[WP:CITE]] and [[WP:RS]]

[Stan Shebs]

George Herbert wrote:
> On 1/25/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:
>   
>> The Cunctator wrote:
>>     
>>> Some people are definitely descending into copyright paranoia...
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Abramoff_scotland_small.jpg
>>>
>>>       
>> What, having your copyrighted work introduced into a trial means your
>> lose all your rights to it? If so, that would be useful, since Disney
>> has been in court a few times. Maybe Mickey Mouse has been PD all this
>> time and we didn't even know it! And haven't there been a bunch of
>> movies involved in court cases too? Free movie uploads tonight!
>>
>> :-)
>>     
>
> It's been established in the US that you lose trade secret status with
> stuff in open court filings (hence a lot of sealed filings in civil
> cases), and that copyrighted stuff doesn't lose copyright but enters
> the "suitable for fair use in coverage in the media and legal
> commentary and the like" realm.
>   
Which is fine, we have a whole set of rules for all that. The original 
claim was that the picture was a production of the US government, for 
which the main evidence seemed to be that it was introduced at a federal 
trial. We still don't know whether the picture was taken by a random 
person in the group or by a professional, and if the latter, who the 
professional was working for. Copyright paranoia? Well, I would be 
pretty angry if someone copied all of my photos, removed my name, and 
declared them "PD-USGov" on some flimsy pretext.

Stan