I expect the photographer would have made that claim already if he did significant post-processing and that WMF would have considered this in their decision.
Pine On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Mike Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 12 Aug 2014, at 07:53, Osama Khalid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 11:24:25PM +0100, Thomas Morton wrote: > >> But being dicks about winning is surely not the sort of attitude we > >> want to display? Hardly helps support our stance as serious, rather > >> than trollish. > > > > That photographer who took copyright way too seriously didn't deserve > > respect. It's really silly that when he is actually dragging people > > into court, we hesitate to use a simple social defense such as this > > one. > > Because Wikimedians don't take copyright way too seriously. ;-) > > On that note - how sure are we that the post-processing done to the photo > was sufficiently minimal to avoid generating a copyright in its own right? > > Thanks, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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