[Foundation-l] Foundation's position on non-free images

Thu Aug 17 08:34:45 UTC 2006

If you upload images in Commons you follow rules established for 
Commons and used in any countries. If you upload images in Hungarian 
Wikipedia you use hungarian law and these images could be used only 
for hungarian side of Wikipedia.

For example the italian law allows the use of screenshot of films 
but with limited use, since this is only an italian law these images 
are uploaded only in Italian database and not in Commons.

Ilario

----Messaggio originale----
Da: saintonge at telus.net
Data: 17.08.06 5.39
A: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"<foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation's position on non-free 
images

Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz wrote:

>Tisza Gergo wrote:
>  
>
>>There is an ongoing debate in the Hungarian Wikipedia community 
about 
>>image license policies. I didn't find anything about the 
Foundation's 
>>position on the issue (except for the rather vague [[m:
Foundation 
>>issues]]), so I'll try to ask here:
>>    
>>
>The same is on Polish :-) I think there should be an official 
Foundation 
>policy about it. When we were asking people from Foundation around 
1 
>year ago, the answers where different from one person to another, 
and 
>then two groups of users (pro fair-use and anti fair-use) were 
using 
>these diffrent answers as a key argument. Finally, someone asked 
simple 
>  question: do we really want to make Polish Wikipedia to 
constantly 
>break Polish Law?
>
I very much disagree that there should be a single policy on this 
that 
affects all projects.  There is too much variation in the laws of 
different countries, and in the needs of different projects (not 
just 
Wikipedias).  It should be up to each project to find its own level 
of 
comfort in this, as long as it is carried on in a general 
atmosphere of 
copyright respect.  The question of whether or not someone is 
"breaking" 
the law is rarely very clear.

Ec

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