[Commons-l] People trying to withdraw their released images

[Daniel Schwen]

IANAL, but...

> A related issue to the one Artur raises is that many legal systems have an
> absolute right to withdraw contractual offers if they have not already been
> mutually agreed upon.  If you believe that a copyright license is a form of
Let's assume mutual agreement between the uploader and the commons project 
(i.e. Wikimedia)

> [..]
> parties, even though they can't revoke it from any existing users.  If a
> jurisdiction allows the license to be removed from future uses (all the
The existing user would thus be the commons project, which effectively has 
been granted the license to redistribute under the same license.
So commons would act as a proxy between the original uploader and the reusers 
of the content, shielding the reusers from the whims of the original 
uploader.
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