[WikiEN-l] Non-commercial only and By Permission Only Images tobe deleted

Fri May 20 10:25:48 UTC 2005

On Friday, May 20, 2005 4:27 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/18/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> > All images which are for non-commercial only use and by permission only
> > are not acceptable for Wikipedia and _will be deleted_.  We have
> > tolerated them for some time, but only as an interim measure during the
> > time when images which were previously not properly tagged could be
> > tagged. 
> 
> What about images from STOCK.XCHNG?

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As has been discussed at length on Commons amongst other places, we have
taken the (informed) decision to laughingly reject the parts of
Stock.XChng's terms and conditions which seek to place upon viewers of
images on their site things that only the copyright owners have the power to
do, namly restrict their future use. If the owner says "no restrictions",
then their images are indeed not under any restrictions, and, effectively,
it's Stock.XChng's problem that their users are saying things that
Stock.XChng doesn't want them to.

Yours,
-- 
James D. Forrester -- Wikimedia: [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]

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