On 2 March 2014 16:31, Chris McKenna <cmckenna(a)sucs.org> wrote:
These days I wouldn't dare upload an image that
was not either my own work
or public doman due to life+100 because I couldn't guarantee that it wont be
delted. Even with my own work I'm wary because of recent cases of amateur
lawyering over the definition of "permanent" for the purposes of UK freedom
of panorama.
Indeed. The extreme paranoia over images people created themselves
versus the ridiculously sloppy standards for anything on Flickr (a bot
can't meaningfully "verify" an image) makes Commons merely seem
capricious.
tl;dr Commons is behaving like damage that needs to be worked around.
If people who consider themselves part of the Commons community don't
like that being noted, they're the ones who need to consider changing;
their intransigence up to now is *why* Commons appears to behave like
damage.
- d.