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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] Grandmother copyrighted anonymous works
From:       "Stephen Bain" <stephen.bain () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-09-09 15:15:14
Message-ID: f30e42de0609090815r1439934bq7a35bd0356b0c8c0 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 9/9/06, Anthony <wikilegal@inbox.org> wrote:
>
> How do you verify the license?  If I put my grandmother's name as
> author are you going to look up her phone number and call her or
> something?  Part of the whole point is that the people who made these
> images don't want to be bothered by this crap.

...

> Part of me thinks the best solution is to just create a sockpuppet for
> each person and upload the images under that, claiming authorship on
> them.  Another part of me thinks I should make some trivial, yet
> copyrightable, modification to the work, claim authorship of the
> derivative, and upload them with myself as author.  Yet another part
> of me thinks I should just turn off the notification and let y'all
> delete the damn images, because it's not worth bothering with.
>
> So far I've just been removing the tags, mentioning that the source is
> anonymous, and I think most of the images have survived.

If the original author doesn't care about attribution, or their rights
as photographer, or what happens to the image, then get them to assign
the copyright to someone else in a deed. Then the other person can do
whatever they want with the image, since they own the copyright.

Of course IANAL, that's just a suggestion etc.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain@gmail.com
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