On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:28:49 +0200, Artur Fija?kowski <wiki.warx(a)gmail.com> wrote: If the status on enwiki is any clue the majority of those will be copyvios yes... I suspect "free use" has a lot of people confused into thinking that anyting they did not pay for can use that tag or something. It also seems like a convenient dumping groupd for "I have permission to use this" type images, pluss stuff from sites that allow personal/educational/noncommercial use (I guess they figure if personal use is allowed then the tag that says free use everywhere is allowed is "close enough"). Then again I've seen people write "all rights reserved" in the upload summary and then slap the "no rights reserved" tag on it so I suspect a lot of people are not even trying to get it right. -- [[:en:User:Sherool]]

On 8/20/06, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote: I think it's far more likely that an increase of misunderstandings with spanish speakers is due to the instructions on spanish wikipedia, more than any lack of translations on commons part .. Their upload link takes people directly to commons. The simple fact of the mater is that Joe Sixpack, no matter what language he speaks, thinks that material he pulled off the web at no cost is also free for us to use. (see http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/lifestyle/orl-pollmusic0906aug09,0,… for a related study). We must move forward with mandatory copyright education for new commons users, and of course that will need to be in many languages. If the projects don't like the extra hump for new users then they can stop directing their users straight to commons. The simple fact of the matter is the incorrectly tagged images are a huge pain to detect and fix. Often it is nearly impossible for the job to be done right without the help of the uploader... On en we are seeing large numbers of images falsly claimed as GFDL-self, these are hard to detect.. how many more of these are we getting, on en and commons, that we can't detect? By failing to ensure that our content is actually Free Content, we are failing at our mission. Ease of use should not override our primary mission.

Many people have suggested that those who tag with {{copyrighted free use}} have the following misunderstanding: "I got the from a page on the internet. I guess you can use it freely." I believe that the way the tag is really misunderstood is this: "[This picture is] copyrighted [, it can used according to] free use". http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Spacechase-ripjump-sma… -- Ystävällisin terveisin, Samuli Lintula