On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/4 Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez@gmail.com:
once you start thinking on "possible liabilities" you're walking the fair use lane on commons. Commons is by definition a free content file repo. That's akin to saying "let's host some nonfree articles copied from wikipedia if we can determine we won't get in trouble"
He's talking about WMF chapter images, not any random crap! Claiming this is a "slippery slope" danger is, frankly, utterly ridiculous and not to be taken seriously.
Chapter images? Like ... educational works authored by the chapters?
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The best way to avoid wanky idiocy is to *BE* *SPECIFIC*. If you can't be specific then perhaps slippery slope arguments do apply.
I suggest a simple criteria: How about we allow copyright restricted uploads only of trademarked marks from organizations with a trademark licensing agreement with the WMF? I think that limits the whom it applies to without needlessly special casing chapters, and it removes any slippery slope argument because it tightly confines the scope.