On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/6/4 Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez(a)gmail.com>om>:
once you start thinking on "possible
liabilities" you're walking the fair
use lane on commons.
Commons is by definition a free content file repo. That's akin to saying
"let's host some nonfree articles copied from wikipedia if we can determine
we won't get in trouble"
He's talking about WMF chapter images, not any random crap! Claiming
this is a "slippery slope" danger is, frankly, utterly ridiculous and
not to be taken seriously.
Chapter images? Like ... educational works authored by the chapters?
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The best way to avoid wanky idiocy is to *BE* *SPECIFIC*. If you can't
be specific then perhaps slippery slope arguments do apply.
I suggest a simple criteria: How about we allow copyright restricted
uploads only of trademarked marks from organizations with a trademark
licensing agreement with the WMF? I think that limits the whom it
applies to without needlessly special casing chapters, and it removes
any slippery slope argument because it tightly confines the scope.