--- On Tue, 17/5/11, Chris McKenna <cmcke...@sucs.org> wrote: > From: Chris McKenna <cmcke...@sucs.org>
> As a separate thread of discussion > from my last message, I note that > despite all the outrage yesterday from some quarters that > we were > featuring works by non-notable Wikimedians on the front > page that we are > doing exactly the same today. > > Before anyone claims that this is not an artistic work, you > should note > that it contains sufficient originality to be eligible for > copyright > protection and that the Wikimedia Foundation sets a much > higher threshold > for this than some (many?) national legislatures (including > the United > Kingdom). In my view the skilled works of a Wikimedian > should be > considered equal to the skilled works of another, > regardless of field or > genera, when both are awarded the same status (in this case > feautued > status) according to the same process. The images from today and yesterday are: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turbo_imperialis_01.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg If you are unwilling to recognise the difference in terms of educational vs. artistic content, nothing I say is likely to make any difference. Frankly, it's not even worth discussing. Andreas _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
