On 7/28/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/28/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I am strongly in support of taking action to
reduce the amount of
copyright outrageous violations that we get... But I think it would
be self defeating to implement any policy which discourages real
contribution. There must be some solution which simultaneously
curtails copyright violation (or at least its impact) and encourages
contribution.
How about a middle ground:
1) By default, any logged in user can upload any image they themselves
have produced. (some way of discouraging them from uploading any other
images needs to be found)
2) "Confirmed" users, preferably those who have uploaded 3 or 4 of
their own images, can upload copyrighted images for fair use.
The general idea is acceptable to me... but will it be sufficient? We
get a lot of "self made public domain" movie screenshots (for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ep3skies.jpg).
It would seem that uploaders can't even figure out that they aren't
the copyright holder... so a soft security limitation on uploading
possibly questionable content may not be as effective as we'd like...
But would it be effective enough?