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Top Euro court: No, you can't steal images from other websites (too bad a school had to be sued to confirm this little fact)

steelpillow Silver badge
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Wikipedia, yawn

This is all old news for us Wikipedians. We have created a special website for images, called the Wikimedia Commons. Only free-licensed and out-of-copyright images are permitted. "Don't know" is likely to be taken down for the well-worn legal reasons just discovered by the school.

There is also a "fair use" rationale for some copyright images in certain circumstances, and those can - with care - be uploaded to Wikipedia itself.

I suppose the big news is that even though the EU legal advocate missed the plot, the judgement didn't.

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