30 Mar

Commons:Village pump/Copyright

‎What resolution passes on this one, opinions?: cmt
← Older revision
Revision as of 18:29, 30 March 2013
Line 216:
Line 216:

::Having someone sit and draw with pencil would be just fine, but then, who has the time, and more important is not that it was a pencil and paper but the question of why that approach passes in the first place. Then apply all the same reasons to the solution here, and you have a workable guideline. [[User:Penyulap|'''Penyulap''']][[User talk:Penyulap| ☏]] 18:12, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

::Having someone sit and draw with pencil would be just fine, but then, who has the time, and more important is not that it was a pencil and paper but the question of why that approach passes in the first place. Then apply all the same reasons to the solution here, and you have a workable guideline. [[User:Penyulap|'''Penyulap''']][[User talk:Penyulap| ☏]] 18:12, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

+

+
:::The way I think about this issue goes like this:

+
::::I have never seen Barack Obama in person. Therefore, if I had the necessary skill and I were to draw a picture of him, it would obviously be derivative of all of the photographs, drawings, and video images I have seen. However, if I did not sit down with a few (one, two, three -- I'm not sure) of those images in front of me, but rather drew from my memory of the hundreds of images I have seen, my drawing would not be a copyvio. On the other hand, as {{w|Shepherd Fairey}} found out the hard way, you cannot take a single image and make a drawing from it without infringing and paying for it. I don't know exactly where the dividing line is -- certainly more than one and less than hundreds.

+
:::So, I think your image is OK. . Jim . . . . [[User:Jameslwoodward|(Jameslwoodward)]] ([[User talk:Jameslwoodward|talk to me]]) 18:29, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump/Copyright&diff=93614072&oldid=93613571