The Hungarian national contest prohibited watermarks for images last year (and personally I don't like pictures with watermark). In Wikimedia Commons: * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Watermarks#Reasons_not_to_upload_watermarked_images * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_guidelines#Image_page_requirements
Samat On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Nicu Buculei <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/07/2012 12:35 AM, Андрій Бондаренко wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Recently one of our participant asked me - could I upload photos with >> watermarks? He argues that he loose original versions (without >> watermarks) and their removing demands to much time. What should I >> answer him? Are photos with watermarks (as theese >> <http://toolserver.org/~**magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?** >> language=commons&project=**wikimedia&categories=Images_** >> with_watermarks&negcats=**Images+from+Wiki+Loves+** >> Monuments+2012&ns[6]=1&ext_**image_data=1&doit=1<http://toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/catscan_rewrite.php?language=commons&project=wikimedia&categories=Images_with_watermarks&negcats=Images+from+Wiki+Loves+Monuments+2012&ns[6]=1&ext_image_data=1&doit=1> >> >) >> allowed? >> > > I had a look at a few random images there and I can identify a few cases: > - real watermarks (didn't find any in the examples) are when a big > watermark covers a large and important part of the image, making it > unusable (think at the preview images from stock photography sites). those > CAN'T be allowed; > - signatures, small watermarks in an unobtrusive part of the image (most > of the time in a corner). I allow those but discourage them by explaining > the uploaders that grace to our free license, anyone is allowed to remove > them, so is useless; > - some photos have the date watermarked in a corner, this probably > happened most of the time in-camera and are unintentional. I feel them > annoying but harmless; > - i saw a few cases the name of an educational institution there. For > those I would ask the uploader if the image is really free (it may be an > internal policy to watermark everything at it may forbid derivatives). > > So in conclusion I do not like watermarks, would alow some, would forbid > some, would question further some. Case by case. >
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