New subject: Common sense exceptions to our copyright policy.

1 Aug 2006

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

...
  On 7/31/06, Mark Wagner &lt;carnildo(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

  On 7/29/06, Sherool &lt;jamydlan(a)online.no&gt;
wrote:
  The problem is though that a lot of people are
remarkably resistant
 to taking any notice of instructions and warnings. They just want to
 upload cool images, and get very upset when we remove and delete them. 
 Which is why we need to remove the upload link.  If they need to hunt
 around a bit before they can upload images, there's a chance they'll
 run into the instructions. 
 Simply making the upload link a link to upload instructions... and
 asking users to upload by forming a image redlink would actually do a
 lot to help.  A lot of images get uploaded without ever being linked
 in.. and where an image is used is very helpful in figuring it out its
 status (for fair use images, at least). 
While I like that we're debating ways to encourage more 
copyright-compliant uploads, I'm not sure about this particular idea. 
Right now, when I happen across an article with a red link for an image, 
I know to remove it and/or look for a substitute. Do we want to make 
people wonder whether they should wait around in case there's an upload 
forthcoming?

--Michael Snow

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