I'd suggest a questionnaire or a wizard-like sequence of questions and optional answers which results in suggestion of which license (if any!) best suits the author's will. I've seen something similar here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/4/49/Choose_license_popup.png (accessible from here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Integration_Guide) For instance: * I declare I am the original author of the image. Y/N ** I allow commercial uses of my work. Y/N ** I allow modifications of my work. Y/N *** I require attribution. Y/N **** I require further distributions being released under the same conditions. Y/N Good side is that people will make more informed decisions. Bad side... this will reduce the number of uploads... Regards, Spritia _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Vassia Atanassova wrote: Actually our main problem is here. Quite a lot of people do not understand what "original" means or what "author" means. I think we should rephrase this as "I am the photographer", "I scan the image from a book", "I copied the image from ...", etc.