@bobby the issue of copyright on images can be very stretchy I most times don't fight about.
Photographer who took the celeb's picture. A funny scenario can be this: I'm a celeb, at an occasion, I realized I looked awesome so I asked someone I dont know to use my phone take a quick shot of me. I wanna put the image on Commons so I go look for that stranger and put his name on. Come on. A similar instance is with these celebs. Some are photoshoots where the studio or photographer can be tracked. In many similar instances, it follows the scenario above. So who's the copyright owner? On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:34 bobby shabangu <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the links Ian, I'm however still confused about the thousands > of pictures used in Wikipedia from Flickr !! Do you know anything about > that ?? > > Felix expect a follow up email from Theresa ( she'll be in contact with > all the user groups as well) to find out how far they are with the > recommendations/proporsals/decisions taken from the indaba. > On 04.03.2015 21:15, Nkansah Rexford wrote: > >> Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you >> please rephrase this statement? >> >> "But, as a >> reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the >> "photograph", not the subject who is photographed." >> > > You have written on Yann's talk page > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yann#copyright_whatever > > "Those images were explicitly emailed to me from the celebs.", a sentence > which sounds like an argument proving that this is OK for you to put them > online on commons.wikimedia.org. > > But, in a normal case, the celebrity does not have any right on these > pictures. The photograph who has shot the picture owns the copyright, not > the celebrity. > > Emmanuel > > -- > Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more > * Web: http://www.kiwix.org > * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline > * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >
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