[Foundation-l] Commons copyright violotion and OTRS

Wed Jul 20 18:51:54 UTC 2005

Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> 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.

On Commons, if you think there is a copyright tag you can throw on 
images you think are in dispute, which is the {{Copyvio}} tag, and any 
user can add that onto the image.  You don't need to be an admin. 
 Please make sure you put in a reason on the image page when you think 
there is a problem, or try and contact the user who uploaded the content 
(to be kind to a potential new user who thought uploading random stuff 
from web pages was appropriate).  The tag will get flagged to a category 
which the admins on Commons check very regularly, and will delete if it 
is against Commons policy.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning