Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 December 26

= December 26 =

free licenses and images -- can a larger version have a different license and copyright than its smaller version?
Suppose there is a very large image A, at 6000px resolution (longest length), which the author attempts to reserve the right to, but chooses to release say a smaller 1024px image under a free license. Will this effectively release the 6000px image under a free license as well? Yanping Nora Soong (talk) 13:19, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Bearing in mind we can't provide legal advice, the answer that people who've looked in to this who also aren't providing legal advice have generally arrived at is "probably in the US in many cases" with the caveat that this has never been tested in court as far as these people know, so it's only going on the decisions made in other cases which seem applicable. See [//creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-cc-license-to-low-resolution-copies-of-a-licensed-work-and-reserve-more-rights-in-high-resolution-copies] + [//creativecommons.org/faq/#how-do-i-know-if-a-low-resolution-photo-and-a-high-resolution-photo-are-the-same-work]. Also perhaps Commons:Commons:Licensing + Commons:Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2014/06 (particularly the #Could someone please post a summary of this? section) and maybe Commons:Commons:Same work. Nil Einne (talk) 13:53, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Satisfactory. Thanks! Good enough answer for me. Yanping Nora Soong (talk) 13:59, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Trying to recall a Henry Ford quote
I'm trying to recall a Henry Ford quote that I heard years ago. A poor paraphrasing from my ailing memory would be:

If every car rolling off my assembly lines could be immediately purchased, then I will make enough cars to fill the Earth.

The point being roughly that the manufacturing part is the easy part, it's the knowing exactly what to manufacture, and the marketing and sales of the product that's the hard part. 731Butai (talk) 15:02, 26 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Are you sure it's a Henry Ford quote, as it doesn't sound like something he'd say? Ford was notoriously boastful about how great he was at designing manufacturing processes; the whole "the important part is marketing, not quality" ethos wasn't really something he went in for. &#8209; Iridescent 15:20, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm sure it was attributed to him; granted, it may have been misattributed, but I'd like to find the misattributed quote just the same. I struck my interpretation of the quote because, like I said, I don't actually remember the quote, so any interpretation would be off the mark and thus not helpful to finding the actual quote. Another interpretation would be: "I'm great at making cars, you people just suck at buying them", which would be more fitting to his image. 731Butai (talk) 17:48, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Ford wrote the following in the January 1927 edition of Ford News:

The Model T was one of the largest factors in creating the conditions which now make the new [Model A] Ford possible. The world-wide influence of the Ford car in the building of good roads & in teaching the people the use & value of mechanical power is conceded. Nowadays everybody runs some kind of motor power but twenty years ago only the adventurous few could be induced to try an automobile. It had a harder time winning public confidence than the airplane has now.
 * Not particularly succinct, but it does perhaps convey the sentiment you're looking for. Tevildo (talk) 18:02, 26 December 2015 (UTC)