On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote:
> Under this new law, would images already uploaded to Commons under FOP > actually have to be deleted? Surely the new law wouldn't apply > retrospectively, but would just affect future uploads of photos? > Retroactively as in “you used this photograph three years ago, so pay us”? Obviously not. But “if you want to use this photograph you took three years ago in a book you are publishing next month, you have to pay us”? That is not retroactivity, that’s just not having a grandfather clause. (Which means continued public availability of these photographs on Commons without permission from the copyright holders author would fall under the new law.) -- Petr Kadlec / Mormegil _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
