Over these last few months, it has been frustrating when GFDL righteous wikipedians nix
each
others images because of fear of copyright violation. This respect for the GFDL which is
extremely
vigorous, but I feel it is also very harmful to wikipedia.
To alleviate some of this, we should allow the inclusion of offsite images. This is
perfectley
acceptable. Take
http://news.google.com for example, which is greatly improved by the
addition of
any image seen fit, also note that not a single image there is hosted on google. I emailed
them,
and they said that what they do eg: <img
src="http://anotherserver/file.jpg"/> is completely
within the realm of copyright policy.
So, the only issue that might remain is that I have observerd a corpus of people who go to
great
lengths to discourage minor copyright violations, I believe that this is to appease the
forces
that be so that they will have confidence in turning wikipedia into a marketable, paper
product.
In response to the common arguments that might arise from them , I strongly feel that when
its
time for these forces that be to publish wikipedia, that these forces should dish out the
money to
ensure (by whatever means they choose) that the offsite images are suitably dealt with.
Thus, I hope that we discontinue going to great lengths to halt the nature of the internet
within wikipedia.
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