[WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Mon Aug 9 19:24:59 UTC 2010


The permission given seems to invite use of the badge and gun image. If 
permission was improvidently given, it is up to them to withdraw it.

Fred


> Wasn't debating which specific image to use, only the principle of
> whether
> we can show an image at all, and whether it helps impersonators.
>
> Clearly we should try and choose a well sourced licence-compliant good
> educational value image, in preference to a poor and dubious one, if we
> keep
> any.
>
> FT2
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Carcharoth
> <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:02 PM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> http://www.google.com/images?num=100&hl=en&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=badge%20site%3Afbi.gov
>>
>> The point, FT2, is that those images should be used, not the one being
>> debated. Delete the current one, upload a new one. Problem solved as
>> far as "official" images and the "photography license" are concerned.
>>
>> Carcharoth
>>
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