Wiki photos use?
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- jox
Can I freely used photos on Wikipedia under the public domain license for ANY use, including corporate?
The license is sort of cryptic... How do I know some random guy didn't just upload someone's copyrighted photo?
I've become extra careful now with this whole Getty thing going on...
- lvl_130
i would say no. why even take that risk?
- jox0
It's a portrait of a famous person, I don't have any options at this point .. it's a sort of rush thing..
*gulp
- Nairn0
Preamble for GNU free documentation use states..
"The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either COMMERCIALLY* or noncommercially."
* my emphasis.
So, assuming it's GNU - yes, go for it, imho.
And fuck Getty - if you fear, they already win.
- Nairn0
er.. my 'Yes' would probably require some statement of source and copyright ownership/respect, somewhere in your document credits, but I genuinely wouldn't consider it the end of the world otherwise. It certainly shouldn't become a sue-able proposition.
- jox0
Thanks Nairn.
The photo on wiki does have proper credits in way of photographer, location, year etc on the wiki page and we should be safe if I we all of that as well, I'm sure?
- jox0
This is for a promo piece for my firm btw, no more than 2-300 select people will see it...