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
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