Hi everyone,
This gets a bit confusing. Let's go step by step. You take a photo of a building. 1. Is the buildings architect death for more than 70 years? Yes. Free
2. Is the building the main subject? No. Free.
3. Does the country have Freedom of Panorama (FOP). Yes: Free. No: Unfree.
4. Does your Wikipedia have an exemption doctrine (like Fair Use) for buildings. Yes: you can use the (low resolution) image at your local Wikipedia.
Italy is a special case. The law just dictates that the Italian government owns the rights of certain buildings.
Maarten
Op 26 apr 2011 om 12:13 heeft Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org het volgende geschreven:\
Hi,
lets not jump to conclusions just yet :)
I don't read the template like you do, and understand the Estonian situation quite differently. As I understand it, there are basically two exemptions (The Fair Use-like exemption for buildings and the 70- year-after-death exemption) which have overlap in old buildings. The fact that the FU-exemption does not specify the 70 year one does not invalidate the out-of-copyright situation. And then even this is all based on Commons-templates, which are user generated, not necessarily by experts and simplified to make it easier to understand.
Best regards,
Lodewijk
2011/4/26 Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com Hmm, then in that case, there is a problem with all of those pictures. Of course, in some countries, there is a gap between the law and enforcement. I don''t know if Wikipedia Estonia needs to worry in the way the Italians do. Having laws doesn't always imply enforcement. If the law is as the Commons templates currently suggest, then I believe however that only Wikipedia Estonia can host these pictures, since they are the only ones who can take the no- enforcement risk.
That does mean however that they cannot take part in the Europe- competition, because I really don't see how you can set up the photo- upload tool to work for them.
How sad!
Jane
2011/4/26 Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnatoke@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote: ...
The way to technically get around this one is to make sure that
the object
is NOT the main subject of the photo. Then all is well. hope it helps,
Yes and no - in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haapsalu_linnus10.jpg, the wall ruin is the main subject of the photo, no matter what you claim.
Regards, Ole
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