User talk:Mceliece

Are you sure the Claude Shannon picture is in the public domain? &mdash; Matt Crypto 22:24, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


 * To follow up on Matt Crypto's question in more specific terms: If you're going to be posting images, you need to be posting specific details about where you got them from or else they will be dropped as possible copyvios. You need to be able to specify when the photograph was taken, who took it, and when and where it was published.  A direct citation to the source of publication would be even better.


 * Yes, this is tedious and irritating, but it reflects the global consensus in copyright law (content creators tend to lobby more energetically for their rights than content consumers).


 * Unfortunately, most images made after 1927 are still protected by copyright &mdash; unless the photographer neglected to go through the renewal procedure that was mandatory in the United States prior to 1976. The image appears to be of Shannon in the prime of his life, so it was probably made in the 1940s and 1950s, and may still be copyrighted.


 * Copyright infringement is a strict liability tort (good faith is no excuse) and so Wikipedia has to err on the side of caution. --Coolcaesar 22:28, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

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