[Wikipedia-l] [Foundation-l] contents under education/information licenses

Tue Nov 21 19:13:51 UTC 2006

On 11/21/06, Artur Fijałkowski <wiki.warx at gmail.com> wrote:
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> * If I put someones photo on CC-BY-SA (and he has given me right to do
> it) it doesn't mean that this image can be used eg. for advertising
> anti conception pills, because this person has still rights to protect
> his image..

This is because of publicity rights, it has nothing to do with the
license, it's another whole chunk of law... In fact, you can us that
image for such purposes so long as you either get the subjects
consent, sufficiently obscure his identity, or are just willing to
deal with the consequences (which are different and perhaps more
acceptable (well, not if you're in France perhaps!) to you than the
ones provided by copyright law).

> So if ESA has only this problem, I think, that ''special'' license
> compatible in every other aspect with PD, or CC-BY-SA is acceptable,
> but if ESA wants as stated some posts earlier any special treatment
> (educational use only, etc.) it's killing idea of freedom and I don't
> know how about other wikimedians, but I will leave projects, because
> I'm not worse than ESA so I want same treatment!

If as the special terms are acceptable enough that we could offer them
to everyone, and even accept a fairly large portion of our content
under those terms... and still be confident that we wouldn't be
failing at our mission.... then I agree completely.