On Nov 6, 2007 8:49 AM, Joichi Ito <jito(a)neoteny.com> wrote:
I've also been rather frustrated with some of the
automated tags. For
instance, I recently had an album jacket image removed for lack of
fair use rationale which I uploaded using a fair use template for
album jacket artwork in an article about the album/CD. It was unclear
to me where the discussion about fair use was and how wikimedia/
wikipedia could have two different and conflicting views on album
artwork and fair use. I asked in the IRC channel and everyone just
said, "when I get a bot tag, I just let it get deleted"... which I
guess is one way of viewing it...
I guess if there were some link to a discussion page or something
where you could ask for clarification, that would be useful.
Ahh. This one isn't too hard to explain, I hope:
Some Wikimedia projects do not allow any "fair use" at all, or really
any copyrighted image which is unlicensed or without a free content
license.
The communities of some projects (For example, Spanish Wikipedia) have
decided on a balance of freedom of reuse verses thoroughness of
coverage which is different from the one found on English Wikipedia.
It is also the case that we have some projects, such as Wiktionary a
wiki dictionary, where the need for unlicensed copyrighted works is
not so clear.
Wikimedia commons uploads should be usable on *all* projects, and
reusers should have a basic confidence that works on commons are
expected to be legal for almost all kinds of reuse under almost all
systems of law.
Because of these policy and purposes differences, unlicensed images
are not usable on all projects. So, instead they should be uploaded
directly to whatever project you intend to use them on, such as
English Wikipedia.
You can find more information at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing#Material_under_the_fair…