[Foundation-l] Board meeting in Rotterdam later this week

[senpai]

It's the only way to have some images in the italian articles. We have a lot 
of restrictive legislations and we can't use the fair use. For example, we 
can go in a museum and take some pictures of a painting but, we can't 
publish into wikipedia without the permission of the "sovraintendenza ai 
beni culturali"; some days ago the "sovraintendenza ai beni culturali" of 
florance have threated us for the photos of some painting and ohter kind of 
arts taked into the florence's museums; perhaps will be a problem also for 
commons.
This is the situation, we don't want to remove all the images that are into 
the databases becous often a picture is essenctial to understand or to 
describe a particular concept.

Senpai
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at wikia.com>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board meeting in Rotterdam later this week

> Marco Chiesa wrote:
>> Brianna Laugher wrote:
>>
>>> No projects allow NC, do they? English Wikipedia hasn't allowed them
>>> for some time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The Italian language wikipedia allows a plethora of  licenses for
>> images, included NC, copyrighted with permission (we ask the copyright
>> owner to mail OTRS for this) and some cases of fairuse as allowed by the
>> Italian law. We do also allow PD images with are not allowed on commons.
>
> I am sorry to hear this, because this is a violation of Wikimedia
> Foundation policy.  From day one, we have been the *free* encyclopedia.
>
> The Italian community needs to work out a transitional policy to correct
> this problem... it will take time and a lot of work, and you will have
> to be gentle with people, but it is just not acceptable to have those
> images in wikipedia in the long run.
>
> --Jimbo
>
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