[Foundation-l] Commons copyright violotion and OTRS

Wed Jul 20 18:39:13 UTC 2005

Hoi,
On OTRS I received a complaint that some photo's were taken from a 
website. As the photo's were located on Commons, I informed the 
gentleman to go to the Commons administrators. In this case they were 
world war II photo's of machine guns. I told the gentleman that even if 
the photos were taken from his website, it would not matter when the 
photos are already in the pubic domain.

The question, as it is not possible for a Dutch admin to remove photos 
from Commons and as it has no impact to remove the pictures from an 
article, is it correct to refer this gentleman to the Commons admins or 
is there / should there be a procedure for these issues.

Thanks,
    GerardM