[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Image license tags

[Justin Cormack]

On 8 Mar 2006, at 16:24, Stan Shebs wrote:

> Justin Cormack wrote:
>
>>
>> We should stop all uploads of images now; free stuff can go to  
>> commons,
>> so that we stop the increase: we have hundreds of thousands of old
>> images
>> to deal with. Its one setting on the software, we might need to get a
>> bunch of admins to become commons admins to cope with the extra load
>> there.
>>
> Not to spread too much FUD about an ongoing debate, but a flaw with  
> the
> "use commons for all free images" theory is that a number of commoners
> consider that German "design rights" laws mean that nearly all  
> pictures
> of designed objects, such as toys or furniture, are not free, and that
> as a consequence most interior shots are not free either. (Outdoors  
> pics
> are covered by the "Panoramafreiheit" exception.) There is also a
> problem with pre-1923 things marked "PD-US" that are not  
> necessarily PD
> worldwide.
>
> Image licensing is a hard issue that cannot be resolved with simple
> solutions.

I was only suggesting this as an interim solution. We dont have  
processes
that can deal with 1000 non free images a day, or the tens or  
hundreds of
thousands in the backlog. Turn off images upload until we have fixed it
(leave it on far admins perhaps).

Justinc