Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Takes Open House Perth 2014

Copyright

Photographers participating in this activity will need to think about copyright before uploading any particular photo to commons. If a photo is covered by freedom of panorama, then it can be uploaded to commons, on the basis that the only copyright holder who needs to give a free use licence is the photographer. If a photo is not covered by freedom of panorama, then it may be eligible to be uploaded to English Wikipedia as a non-free fair use image, but cannot be uploaded to commons.

In Australia, freedom of panorama applies to buildings, and to eligible works "situated, otherwise than temporarily, in a public place, or in premises open to the public", but not necessarily to such works situated in premises temporarily open to the public, ie normally closed to the public. See commons:FOP for more information. Bahnfrend (talk) 08:56, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

I've added an "Important information" section to the page covering these sorts of issues (feel free to add to it) - Evad37 [talk] 10:40, 24 October 2014 (UTC)