David Gerard wrote:
On 24/02/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Good, now that we agree that Fair Use images may be used. Is there a way for a bot to recognize what context an image is being used in, for it to know which ones *may* be in violation of some contextual issue?
Yep! You make sure they're tagged properly.
But! What if a fair-use image is MISTAKENLY deleted??
... then it can be recovered pretty darn easily, because in almost all cases they're readily available on the internet.
But! What if a fair-use image CAN'T be easily re-uploaded??
... then it can be undeleted.
The damage to the project is negligible, and any actual cases are trivially easy to fix.
Do you have any cases of erroneous deletion to hand? Not theoretical, actual cases. If so, were any of these not trivially fixable?
It's hard to come up with actual cases when those examples have already been deleted, and can't be seen. It's important to be able to audit these activities to make sure that they are consistent with theory. Bots should not be used as an excuse for refusing to think.
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