What we could have is images that were once PD becoming copyright
violations, minor issue but we'd have to delete them
The other is under due dilligence we could have request for checkuser
information to identify the IP of the uploader so that a person(corporate)
wanting to take ownership of a photograph, atm we cant supply such
information if we give a standard rejection of we are unable to assist in
identfying the uploader we would be closing that line of investigation and
contributing to the loss of a PD image.
On 19 March 2010 01:10, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Caroline Ford
<caroline.ford.work(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
If anything we may gain from the orphan works
clause. The BJP is running
a
campaign against this as it thinks that photos
without metatags will be
stolen.
I don't think there will be much gain for Commons - the amount of
research that is required is probably too much for volunteers to do on
a one-by-one base, and where the research has been done by others, the
copyright will fall to them rather than reverting to the public
domain.
--
André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
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