[Foundation-l] Re: Copyright issues...walking on thin ice

Wed Aug 11 10:07:14 UTC 2004

Hi,

Le Wednesday 11 August 2004 08:49, Michael Snow a écrit :

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> But online content is not that big of an issue really, because anyone
> who says we're infringing on their copyright has to give us a takedown
> notice first, and we can remove the offending image. The real problem is
> print. And once you get to print, I have a _very_ hard time buying any
> argument that the image which illustrates an article is somehow a
> separate and independent work from the article text. The one kind of
> print version for which I might entertain this argument is if the images
> are segregated as is done in many books, on separate glossier facing
> pages or in a batch of illustrations in the middle of the book. But in
> the routine print version, where the image is printed out on the same
> page as the article, they look like part of one document and I don't see
> how you can make much of a case that they're not. As a result, I think
> the article as a whole, _including_ associated images, is the smallest
> Document to which we can legitimately atomize the GFDL.

I would agree with you on the interpretation of the GFDL, but I think that the 
online and paper projects have to be treated differently.
Some people even say that the WMF should never publish a paper edition on its 
own, and they may have some good points, but IANAL.

Anyway, I think it's the responsibility of the publisher of the paper edition 
to remove fair use images. So it is important that images are clearly tagged, 
so they can be easily removed with a simple SQL query.

And I can imagine another scenario where an organisation could buy the rights 
of copyrighted images to include them in a paper edition. But I can't say if 
this would be valid under the GFDL.

> --Michael Snow

Yann

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