[Foundation-l] Bridgeman v. Corel worldwide for Wikimedia Commons - yes or no?

Sat Mar 15 12:49:17 UTC 2008

--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> Michael Snow wrote:
> > Klaus Graf wrote:
> >   
> >> There are opinions on Commons that Moeller's
> statement in this list
> >> ("[W]e've consistently held that faithful
> reproductions of
> >> two-dimensional public domain works which are
> nothing more than
> >> reproductions should be considered public domain
> for licensing
> >> purposes") has been "overruled" by Mike Godwin's
> statement (which was
> >> adressed on a Wikisource case)
> >>
> >> See
> >>
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#About_Bridgeman_vs._Corel
> >>   
> >>     
> > I'm not offering a legal opinion on the underlying
> issue, but if I 
> > follow the discussion correctly it shows
> absolutely no reason to think 
> > Mike has "overruled" Erik on anything. The
> statement from Mike that is 
> > being pointed to is about a different question
> entirely.
> What's concerning about this is that we are
> referring to a statement by 
> Mike on Anthere's Meta talk page.  If he were
> providing legal advice to 
> the entire community would it not be more
> appropriate on a page 
> addressed to a more general population.  Anybody can
> read anybody else's 
> talk page, but that is as much to enable dialogue
> between any two 
> persons.  I still respect a kind of semi-private
> quality to personal 
> talk pages.  That someone should derive a legal
> position based on 
> eavesdropping onto a personal talk page doesn't seem
> at all the best way 
> to go about this sort of thing.
> 
> Ec

Come on Ec!  Admit that you dislike Mike's conclusion
when giving reasons to not use it. ;)

More on-topic, I cannot see any discrepancy between
Erik's and Mike's opinion, even though they are
responses to different questions.  Erik basically
supports the conclusion of Bridgeman v. Corel and Mike
says we must follow US law.  Since Bridgeman v. Corel 
*is* US law, I cannot understand what the issue is.

Birgitte SB

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