On 27 February 2014 22:03, Galileo Vidoni <galio2k(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We remain convinced that something is fundamentally
wrong when its
practical result is self-inflicting the highest possible loss of contents.
No that would come from accepting the sweat of the brow doctrine.
And we remain convinced that there is space for a way
more prudent
implementation of URAA that prevents deleting educational resources until
there is complete copyright information and no legal alternative, which to
our understanding (and to our interpretation of WMF's communications) can
mean waiting for DMCA takedown notices.
We could do that but it pretty much removes commons only advantage over say
imgur or flickr. We want the images on commons to be free. Not simply stuff
no one has got around to complaining about yet,
--
geni