Platonides comment on fair use images, you say in point 2 that hotlinking is something that fits nicely withing the wmf mission, I say it should not be possible to hotlink fair use images.
How would you argue that serving _fair_use_images_ for someone else is within wmf mission? How would you argue that such use of the images does not violates the copyright owners rights to the images? John Brian skrev: > What on earth are you talking about? > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:12 AM, John at Darkstar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hotlinking fair use images are something that should not be possible. >> John >> >> Brian skrev: >>> Two things >>> 1. There isn't a good way to get an image dump >>> >>> 2. Allowing hotlinking seems to fit nicely within the WMF mission. >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Alex wrote: >>>>> We do have http://stats.wikimedia.org/ which includes things like >>>>> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/VisitorsSampledLogOrigins.htm >>>> I see on that list pretty high the site >> www.musicistheheartofoursoul.com >>>> Looking at the page, they include many images from wikimedia servers, >>>> hotlinking them and without link to the image page. >>>> >>>> Moreover, they aren't even free images but Fair Use ones uploaded on >>>> enwiki. >>>> >>>> Shouldn't we politely ask them to make a local copy? >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
