Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-11-12/In the media

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" Despite this, there are 328 images in the Wikimedia Commons category Eiffel Tower at night.". So how long until some copyright-paranoia-fanatic starts some deletion discussions on Commons? Sigh. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:48, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Though the Eiffel Tower light show is copyrighted, now and then just the safety lights are on, which are *not* copyrighted, therefore, those images may reside on Commons. I suppose we could also supplement our "blacked-out" Atomium picture with an artistic night photo where the safety lights are off on the Atomium and only foreground objects are visible. I am hoping that the new Wikimedia Belgium chapter will be able to do a bit of lobbying in Brussles on this issue, starting of course, with the Atomium itself. Jane (talk) 06:59, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Piotrus. As Jane says, saying that “The more recently installed lights on the Tower mean, however, that photographs taken at night fall under these copyright restrictions.” is quite inaccurate. See the explanations in c:Category:Eiffel Tower at night, as well as the pages linked there, such as c:Category:Eiffel Tower-related deletion requests , and if you read French this piece “Photographie de nuit: ce que l’on sait sur l’éclairage de la tour Eiffel” by User:PierreSelim. Jean-Fred (talk) 08:14, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Copyrighted panorama right is a huge issue in Indonesia-related wiki article. I have no idea that France adopted the same principle. It's a selfish principle in my opinion.--Rochelimit (talk) 09:37, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Despite the heartfelt and scathing appeal in The Signpost, I note that Wikipedians have resisted changing one jot or tittle of the article on Hedy Lamarr, insisting that a brief nude scene in a 1933 foreign language film is more familiar to the readers than their cell phones. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:45, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]