Silly question for you all:
Is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_cake.jpg actually
copyrighted to the WMF as a WMF logo? The cake was made for Wikimedia
UK, so it's technically a derivative work, perhaps...
Any ideas what the copyright status of this should be? Does the author
The cake designer can only release his/her part of the creative process
under a free license (baking the cake/making the photo). I would suggest to
just specifiy that the logo-part is copyright WMF, the photographic and
cake-baking component to be released under CC-BY (not -SA to avoid the SA
On 5 March 2012 14:54, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Silly question for you all:
Is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_cake.jpg actually
copyrighted to the WMF as a WMF logo? The cake was made for Wikimedia UK, so
it's technically a derivative work,
Does the author
(Jezhotwells) have the ability to release it under a free licence, if
s/he
wishes?
No but if they put it on permanent display in a public place the photo
would probably be totally fine under UK freedom of panorama law.
I suspect a court would hold that the set of
On 5 March 2012 20:22, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 March 2012 14:54, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
Silly question for you all:
Is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_cake.jpg actually
copyrighted to the WMF as a WMF logo? The cake was made for
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.comwrote:
I suspect a court would hold that the set of cakes is disjoint from the
set of objects on permanent display, and thus that a photograph of cake
can never benefit from freedom of panorama.
You mean we can't have
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Mike Christie coldchr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com
wrote:
I suspect a court would hold that the set of cakes is disjoint from the
set of objects on permanent display, and thus that a photograph
On 5 March 2012 20:40, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect a court would hold that the set of cakes is disjoint from the
set of objects on permanent display, and thus that a photograph of cake
can never benefit from freedom of panorama.
Well you say that but slices of
On 5 March 2012 22:07, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 March 2012 20:40, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect a court would hold that the set of cakes is disjoint from the
set of objects on permanent display, and thus that a photograph of cake
can never benefit from
eating the cake would damage the moral rights of the logo author. Since he
cannot give general permission to violate moral rights, eating the cake
would be illegal.
No dia 5 de Março de 2012 23:08, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com escreveu:
On 5 March 2012 22:07, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 March 2012 23:14, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
eating the cake would damage the moral rights of the logo author. Since he
cannot give general permission to violate moral rights, eating the cake
would be illegal.
If you take a slice out of the cake, that could be an issue
Best all around to simply destroy the evidence (by eating it?).
... can this topic end now? Or be moved on-wiki so that it can be filed under
WP:SILLY?
Thanks,
Mike
On 5 Mar 2012, at 23:23, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 5 March 2012 23:14, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
eating the
You're right, the topic is done. Filing it under WP:SILLY would be the
icing on the cake.
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Michael Peel
michael.p...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
Best all around to simply destroy the evidence (by eating it?).
... can this topic end now? Or be moved on-wiki so that it
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