Stephen Streater wrote:
On 2 Sep 2006, at 20:00, Fastfission wrote:
> On 9/2/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nice attempt to overrule Jimbos edict against 'with permissions'
>> images.
>>
>>
[snip]
Please don't encourage a regression to a point
where we permit images
that others couldn't claim fair use for simply because people will
give us permission to display them on their website.
Regression? This is the status quo, as far as I can see.
A significant number of people will be willing to release
images for free if asked.
Perhaps in this case the owner could release an internet
resolution image with the presumption that someone who
wanted to print it would want much higher resolution and
would still pay for this.
And of course he may lose no income from internet
images anyway in practice.
How about encouraging the use of suitable boilerplate wording for use in
the image copyright notice, that says something like:
"This low resolution version of a copyrighted image is used under by
permission from its copyright owner, Example Corporation, who have made
it available for use under the GFDL: please see [[WP:GFDL]] for license
terms."
"High-resolution versions of this image are available for use under
commercial license terms directly from the copyright owner; please
contact Example Corporation for more details, at
http://www.example.com/image-licencing/example-image-reference-code."
generated by:
{{subst:low-res under GFDL|Example
Corporation|http://www.example.com/image-licencing/example-image-reference-…
-- Neil