[WikiEN-l] European copyrtght law and Wikipedia servers

Thu Jul 14 18:48:29 UTC 2005

Hi everyone.

If this is going to be a problem then its all the more reason for 
banning fair use.

As far as I can see there has been no discussion about obtaining more
public domain images, only on handling those which are problematic.

I have  two thoughts:

First: I was, in regard to the London bombing, greatly impressed by 
the images from Flickr (www.flickr.org) I see from their FAQ that one 
of the  licencing options they offer users is a public domain one, 
which is presumably how we came by those we used. I spent a while 
poking around their site and the spread of high quality images of 
many subjects is awesome

Maybe contact could be made with them asking if they can give 
publicity to Wikipedia and saying we are always on the look out for 
PD images for Commons we can use in articles.

Second: There must be specialist editors like me who have book 
collections with out-of-copyright material which could be scanned. 
This gets over the hassle of reproduction fees from library sources.
We should have a drive to get more editors making PD  images even if 
they are for articles they have not written.

I am probably looking in the wrong place, but I have not found 
anywhere detailed instructions for the best methods of scanning for 
Wiki use.  Much of the material I have comprises drawings and 
engravings, and these need care in scanning to avoid dither. While 
there is much detailed information about how to make the FTP transfer 
and handling the image on the  Wiki page. I cannot find in the  
tutorials anything on how to make the scans to optimum Wiki 
standards.

Tony Woolrich (AKA Apwoolrich)

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