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Commons talk:Freedom of panorama

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::::@Túrelio: it's not exactly what I'm saying. FOP is not allowed (and thus not usable on Commons) only if the work is not freely (free as in beer) available, in other words if the work is used for commercial purposes. Say you have a protected work permanently located in a museum (which is a place open to the public), FOP is allowed if the entrance is free, otherwise it's not permitted. Regards. --[[User:Indif|Indif]] ([[User talk:Indif|talk]]) 18:59, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

::::@Túrelio: it's not exactly what I'm saying. FOP is not allowed (and thus not usable on Commons) only if the work is not freely (free as in beer) available, in other words if the work is used for commercial purposes. Say you have a protected work permanently located in a museum (which is a place open to the public), FOP is allowed if the entrance is free, otherwise it's not permitted. Regards. --[[User:Indif|Indif]] ([[User talk:Indif|talk]]) 18:59, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

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{{outdent}}Guys, look at the text of the law again: commercial uses ''are'' allowed as long as the copyrighted work is not ''the main subject''. See the first table above by Frenchinmorocco which is a correct representation. This makes a difference here because I see images deleted all the time because of buildings that are not the main subject, but at the same time the use is not minimal enough as to accept de minimis. The law doesn't require uses to be minimal, just not dominant, which is an important distinction. Not only this gives us more flexibility when dealing with images of urbanscape, museum halls, public parks etc. but it might also mean that for example, we can have a 10-minute video of Casablanca, that includes a couple of 30-second, full-on shots of the Hassan II Mosque. -- [[User:Orionist|'''Orionist''']] ★ [[User talk:Orionist|talk]] 01:28, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

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