On 4/10/2012 8:59 AM, Cary Bass wrote:
On 4/10/2012 7:38 AM, Nathan wrote:
You must've missed SJ's earlier e-mail,
where he linked this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/ObiWolf_Lesbian…
Tim's descriptions of the deletion discussions referred specifically
to the ObiWolf images. Reading those discussions and posts to this
list, I don't think you can conclude "the system we have works very
well" - at least not in those cases.
Absolutely,
I've read the OTRS email, now. The author never intended to release
the images to the public under a free license. He uploaded them to
Flickr to share with the models. It seems that we are playing
"gotcha" with the artist by stating "irrevocable", which is a very
poor stand from which to operate, especially because people do make
errors in judgement due to lack of technical expertise or
understanding of implication.
The images are not actually available anywhere else under a free
license, and I've yet to locate anything but a direct link to the
images themselves available online, on a copyrighted site.
Additionally, the artist's Flickr site
SHOULD READ: "the artist's Flickr site is now entirely Copyright,
thereby demonstrating a renewed understanding of intent and free licensing."
We are indeed broken if we are now deciding that we
cannot honor an
artist's request to remove images he uploaded in either an error of
judgment, a misunderstanding of licensing, a lack of technical
understanding, or some combination of any or all of those.
So, can this still be remedied? I would like to hear suggestions. I
think we have admins willing to delete the images, but I would
certainly not do this on my own, "lone wolf' style, or without some
agreement as to how to accomplish this.
Cary