[Wikipedia-l] Re: comment on wikipedia
Anthere
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Sun Feb 1 19:04:07 UTC 2004
Caroline Ford a écrit:
many things I agree with
but just, hi Caroline (I read the whole mail wondering who Caroline was) :-)
> Yann Forget wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Le Sunday 01 February 2004 07:06, Alex R. a écrit :
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>>> Police ledgers are not copyrightable, that is public information.
>>> Just like the news is not really copyrightable. That is why you can
>>> use pictures of famous people and famous events. Unless their is
>>> something particularly creative about the photo there is just a
>>> mechanical
>>> reproduction. Sort of like the copyright of an old painting.
>>>
>>
>>
>> This is something new to me.
>> Do you mean that, say, pictures of the 9/11 attacks are not copyrightable?
>> As well as pictures of the presidents of the US?
>> We have a problem with the pictures of the presidents of France which
>> are "© Présidence de la République. Documentation française".
>> cf. http://www.elysee.fr/instit/fonct3.php
>> Can we put these freely into Wikipedia?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yann
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> As always they are only talking about US copyright law. As far as I know
> we cannot do any of this in the UK, and I imagine it will be the same in
> France.
> Telephone directories are copyrighted in the UK, for example.
> This is why some of us are very unhappy about "fair use", as it means
> that we cannot ever host a mirror in the UK, or have a fork.
>
> We have no pictures of UK politicians for the same reason.
>
> What would be nice would be actual advice as to what _we_ can do. I
> understand that German wikipedia has banned fair use images. I know that
> most of what has been suggested is illegal here and that British
> contributors are cautious because the international nature of the
> project never seems to be considered.
>
> Caroline (User:Secretlondon)
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