[Commons-l] Copyrighted free use

Sun Aug 20 12:21:16 UTC 2006

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:28:49 +0200, Artur Fija?kowski  
<wiki.warx at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see that lots of people loads images and give them template
> {{Copyrighted free use}}. The funny thing about it is, that in most
> cases they are screenshots from TV, movies, movie posters, game
> covers, etc. So maybe we should make a large cleanup of images in this
> category, couse there can be tons of copyvios...
>
> AJF/WarX
>
> ps. why most copyvios is made by people talking in spanic langugage  ?

If the status on enwiki is any clue the majority of those will be copyvios  
yes... I suspect "free use" has a lot of people confused into thinking  
that anyting they did not pay for can use that tag or something. It also  
seems like a convenient dumping groupd for "I have permission to use this"  
type images, pluss stuff from sites that allow  
personal/educational/noncommercial use (I guess they figure if personal  
use is allowed then the tag that says free use everywhere is allowed is  
"close enough"). Then again I've seen people write "all rights reserved"  
in the upload summary and then slap the "no rights reserved" tag on it so  
I suspect a lot of people are not even trying to get it right.

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