[Foundation-l] Pictures with free license about the World Economic Forum 2007 (WEF 2007)

Fri Mar 28 14:34:38 UTC 2008

Nicolas Guérin wrote:
> The last World Economic Forum in Davos released on Flickr some pictures
> about "very important people" with a free license compatible with Commons.
> It seems that they intentionally released such pictures to be uploaded on
> Commons, as this seems to be confirmed at
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjism89/WEF
> and at http://blog.anthere.org/
> 
> Unfortunately, many people on Commons don't believed that this might be true
> and the view uploaded images were requested for deletion ( See
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Project%3AWEF )
> 
> This situation should be clarified as soon as possible, otherwise all
> uploaded pictures on Commons from WEF might be deleted, and it would be
> really a pity.
> 
> Guérin Nicolas

The situation IS clear.

Benjism contacted them by email to double check:
Their answer is copy pasted here: 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjism89/WEF

I also sent special thank you to the organizer of the technology 
pioneers. He did not answer "no, actually, Matthias Lüfkens is a banned 
organizer, and the Flickr licenses are just misleading on purpose".

Ant