User talk:Alexander Liptak

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Following a pointer from Rational Wiki [1], I find that you posted a number of images to Wikimedia commons and later filed a DMCA takedown notice [2] to have them removed. I suppose I could go search talk pages for the story, but it seems simpler to just ask what that was about.

My own understanding is that by posting here (or at WMF) you irrevocably license the images under a Creative Commons license and thereafter anyone can do almost anything with them provided they attribute the source correctly. I am not a lawyer, but as I see it even though our servers are (unfortunately, in my view) located in the US, the DMCA is irrelevant since it deals with copyright violations and we have a duly licensed copy.

Is your understanding different? How? Sandy Harris 00:34, 28 November 2012 (UTC)