2012/7/24 Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com>: > 2012/7/24 Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com>: >> 2012/7/24 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The Olympic games are beginning soon. Apparently, ticket holders >>> cannot use photo equipment longer than 30cm and cannot use the photos >>> and videos for commercial purposes without accreditation. >>> >>> Practically everything that happens at the Olympics is notable and >>> should be on Wikipedia, Commons, etc. Does anybody know whether there >>> are professional accredited photographers who are Wikimedia-friendly >>> and plan to upload their photos? If there aren't any, does anybody >>> know whether a Wikipedian can obtain such accreditation? >>> >>> This doesn't concern me directly, but there are many, many people who >>> write Wikipedia articles about sports in all languages and it may be >>> interesting to them. Also, it may be a frequent issue in sports and >>> I'm just not aware of it because I rarely follow sports. >>> >>> Sources for the restrictions: >>> * http://www.tickets.london2012.com/purchaseterms.html >>> * PDF: http://j.mp/london2012prohibited >> >> I think this another layer of problems besides copyright, with >> CC-BY-SA the author grants permission to reuse the photo also for >> commercial purposes without requesting permission to the author. But >> there are many other layers of rights which could interfere with the >> free (or better the "anarchic") reuse of a photo. For example I think >> that using an image of Usain Bolt to promote a book without explicit >> permission from the athlete (or his agent) is anyhow unlawful even if >> the photo was taken, for example, in the street and freely licensed. >> That said I think with can treat photo from the Olympics in a similar >> way as we do for photos with "personality rights", we could put a >> template saying "Olympics photo warning: to reuse for commercial >> purposes this photo you should obtain permission from IOC and/or >> individuals depicted in the photo". >> The point is that the author of the photo allows for it the widest >> possible reuse permitted by CC-BY-SA, thus sharing part of its >> copyright with others, but if one wants to use the photo for >> commercial purposes that he should go (himself, not the author) >> through the hassle of obtaining permission from the relevant subjects. >> >> Could it work? >> > > No. CC-BY-SA clearly allows for commercial use of works, and there is > also clause that the licence cannot be accompanied by extra > restrictions which are not compatible with the licence. However, > CC-BY-SA is only copyrights licence, so all other legal restrictionz > are still in power. For example: using someone's face in big-scale > commercial or political campaign may be treated as a infringement of > personal rights, even if the face is taken from CC-BY-SA picture...
I really can't figure out the difference between your example about personality rights and my previous, so I don't see why you're saying that the above approch could not work, but IANAL. As I said above I think this restrinction on commercial use of the images imposed by IOC is not about copyright but is on a different level and AFAICT is very similar to the case of personality rights to some extent. So may you clarify? Thanks, Cristian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l