Just a few remarks about the 2015 strategic plan pdf (1) *http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode 4(a) "You must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for, this License with every copy of the Work You Distribute or Publicly Perform" is infringed
*The sunflower picture on the last page is what people colloquially call a "stolen" picture. The attribution right of Uwe H. Friese Bremerhaven 2005 (User:Vulcan) is infringed (2) *I could not find out where the other sunflower picture on the front cover page is taken from. *The photographer/cameraman , original author of the portraits page 3 is not attributed, which in turn prevents users from reusing the pictures. *When distributing portraits of living people with a free license, a good practice is to include a warning such as http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Personality_rights ; If the pictures/videos were taken with the understanding between the cameraman and the models that they are taken for the purpose of documenting the WMF projects, it should be made clear to future reusers that we don't have a model release for other purposes. *The WMF logo on the back cover page is apparently released under CC-BY-SA *The reader is not reminded that the WMF logo (together with the series of words "Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Wikispecies") is trademarked *The pdf does not contain any instruction pertaining to the conditions under which the WMF logo on the back cover page can be reused : **Is verbatim copying of the pdf allowed ? I guess yes, but if you don't write it down, people are not supposed to distribute the pdf verbatim, freely, because it contains a copyrighted logo. The question whether people can freely upload and redistribute this pdf on their own website is not addressed. **Is modifying the whole document (including the WMF logo) allowed ? Or should the creator of a modified version remove the WMF logo ? Even for a translation ? What are you allowed to do with the other trademarks ? The above is the sort of things which happen in an organization which does not put « foster good licencing and attribution practices » high enough in its priority list and in its budget (and in its strategic plan ?) 2015 (1) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/c/c0/WMF_StrategicPlan2011_spreads.pdf found at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary (2) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunflower_Bl%C3%BCte.JPG _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l