While default license is a good idea we need to remember that the uploaders are making a choice to release their work

With that they should be making the choice and not having us(some automated process) do it for them because they are giving away rights to their work. A prefilled form could be argued as taking the licensing options away from the uploader, and therefore Commons taking responsability for the release of the material.

Admins have always look unfavourably at deletion request because the loader says they didnt intend releasing the work for commercial use or thought they were only releasing for educational use or some other reason, we can do that because the person made the choice with each and every upload not us. Automatically prefilling the upload form with a license removes the choice/decision to over come that we would then need an alternative check box for the uploader to acknowledge that they understand the rights they are releasing.

We need people to freely release media, we need them to do in such away that we can be confident that what ever licensing the uploader chooses it is them making the choice not us.

As for a catergory option how do we distinguish the license choice where we have two or more different licensing options the Mark Twain example

let say I have access to the a complete set of original books I lay them out in a display s as to show different features(not a reproduction of each book) I then categorise it under

Photographs by me -- i use (cc-by-2.5)
Books by Mark Twain -- PD-old

the license because there is effort and originality in the composition I am the copyright holder of that image the license is CC-by-2.5, I was to then photograph each book individually and the image was entirely the book/page then it would be PD, no automotion process can distinguish between these two images to make a valid choice nor should it again because its the uploaders responsability to upload the images with the appropriate license.



On 22 July 2010 03:32, Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl> wrote:
Op 21-7-2010 4:48, Neil Kandalgaonkar schreef:
> On 7/20/10 7:28 PM, Stephen Bain wrote:
>
>
>> Perhaps a checkbox could be displayed when the licence field is filled
>> with the default preference but the user inputs something else, asking
>> if they would like to update their preference?
>>
>>
> That might not be too bad. I think I'd put question that *after* the
> upload was done though.
>
>
Just give the user the option to set a default license for own work
files. If the user doesn't select own work in the upload form -> don't
set the default license.

Maarten


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