On 5/24/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
No, this is not the purpose of commons. The purpose
of commons is to be
very restrictive and narrow so that a huge range of people who would
like to feel comfortable reusing our work can do so. There will of
course be borderline cases, but unlike the other projects, commons
should come down firmly on the side of caution.
Indeed, by doing so, we make all the more clear what is broken about
aspects of current copyright law worldwide.
I agree that we should come down on the side of caution, but not
paranoia. Photos of copyrighted characters are probably not OK;
photos of general 3D objects, even if those objects are copyrightable,
are generally not considered copyright infringements, in the US at
least and many other countries.
-Matt