2012/7/24 Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com>: > 2012/7/24 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: >> Hi, >> >> The Olympic games are beginning soon. Apparently, ticket holders >> cannot use photo equipment longer than 30cm and cannot use the photos >> and videos for commercial purposes without accreditation. >> >> Practically everything that happens at the Olympics is notable and >> should be on Wikipedia, Commons, etc. Does anybody know whether there >> are professional accredited photographers who are Wikimedia-friendly >> and plan to upload their photos? If there aren't any, does anybody >> know whether a Wikipedian can obtain such accreditation? >> >> This doesn't concern me directly, but there are many, many people who >> write Wikipedia articles about sports in all languages and it may be >> interesting to them. Also, it may be a frequent issue in sports and >> I'm just not aware of it because I rarely follow sports. >> >> Sources for the restrictions: >> * http://www.tickets.london2012.com/purchaseterms.html >> * PDF: http://j.mp/london2012prohibited > > I think this another layer of problems besides copyright, with > CC-BY-SA the author grants permission to reuse the photo also for > commercial purposes without requesting permission to the author. But > there are many other layers of rights which could interfere with the > free (or better the "anarchic") reuse of a photo. For example I think > that using an image of Usain Bolt to promote a book without explicit > permission from the athlete (or his agent) is anyhow unlawful even if > the photo was taken, for example, in the street and freely licensed. > That said I think with can treat photo from the Olympics in a similar > way as we do for photos with "personality rights", we could put a > template saying "Olympics photo warning: to reuse for commercial > purposes this photo you should obtain permission from IOC and/or > individuals depicted in the photo". > The point is that the author of the photo allows for it the widest > possible reuse permitted by CC-BY-SA, thus sharing part of its > copyright with others, but if one wants to use the photo for > commercial purposes that he should go (himself, not the author) > through the hassle of obtaining permission from the relevant subjects. > > Could it work? >
No. CC-BY-SA clearly allows for commercial use of works, and there is also clause that the licence cannot be accompanied by extra restrictions which are not compatible with the licence. However, CC-BY-SA is only copyrights licence, so all other legal restrictionz are still in power. For example: using someone's face in big-scale commercial or political campaign may be treated as a infringement of personal rights, even if the face is taken from CC-BY-SA picture... -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
