On 08/07/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
As a part of this brainstorming, please know that we have very good friends at Flickr. I see Stewart and Caterina socially fairly often, and of course they are huge fans. So if there is anything we need from Flickr, let's discuss it, write it up, and I can ask them.
- Making visible a "license history" would solve some problems, if not implementing Eugene's idea of only allowing users to change to a less-restrictive license. - Flickr is the biggest 'user' of Creative Commons license, in terms of letting ITS users choose to use them. This is really a complaint about CC, but Flickr could help: stop using the vague phrase "some rights reserved" to refer to ALL CC licenses and instead use the specific name of the license. Teaching people how to distinguish between the various licenses is made extremely difficult when Flickr only uses tiny icons and no actual visible text, to identify the relevant license.
Also regarding PD releases, there is a "CC-PD" "license" which Flickr could let people choose to use.
regards Brianna