To give people an idea of the scale of the problem Morwen and I did a survey this evening.
The summary is on: User:Secretlondon/Images/Summary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Secretlondon/Images/Summary)
We looked at all the images on articles of heads of state (from the [[List of national leaders]]), and all the images on articles on the 100 largest cities. We then looked to see what, if any, copyright info they had.
On the heads of state - 28% were definitely public domain or free usage. (these were official US government photos or from the organisation of american states). Most of the US government ones feature the president of wherever shaking hands with Bush. Remember that most Governments claim copyright on images.
The images of cities were similar - except that we got photographs taken by users. 46 were still unattributed and only 17 public domain and 13 gfdl.
I hope this helps
Caroline / Secretlondon
Jimmy Wales wrote:
I would strongly prefer that people not post images to wikipedia with permission *just* for Wikipedia. We're a GNU-free project, and we will always remain such.
I think it is better that we deal with Anthony DiPierro's infringement more directly.
Do we have contact information for him, as in a telephone number or email address? I emailed one address a while back to try to discuss his interpretation of the GNU FDL, but he never responded (to my knowledge).
--Jimbo _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l