Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

2010-02-10 Thread Andrew Gray
On 10 February 2010 02:58, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote: But we keep getting editors who use the PD-old template anyway as an exercise in wishful thinking.  Too often, the existence of a valid copyright is debatable becomes a euphemism for I've got a lousy source and haven't done

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

2010-02-10 Thread David Gerard
On 10 February 2010 13:21, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: I've sometimes thought that, in an ideal world, we should just phase out PD-old and all its forms - it's often, as you say, wishful thinking, or sometimes (and I know in my early days I did this) a cover for a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

2010-02-10 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:26 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 February 2010 13:21, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: I've sometimes thought that, in an ideal world, we should just phase out PD-old and all its forms - it's often, as you say, wishful thinking, or

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

2010-02-10 Thread Carcharoth
Oh, and a current example, if anyone is interested: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Picture_upload_question One of the big problems is finding out whether copyright was renewed, but I'm not sure if the artwork in question was ever published in the USA anyway. People miss

[WikiEN-l] Office hours for Friday, February 12

2010-02-10 Thread Cary Bass
Hey everyone! On Friday, Office Hour will be hosted by Mike Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read about at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Mikegodwin Office hours are from 2330 to 0030 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 AM PST). If you do not have an IRC client,