On 7/29/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/28/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@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:
- 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.
I hate to spoil your fun, but what is going to stop people from just claiming "Yes, I made this" on every random image they get from Flickr/Photobucket/Google images?
If you upload enough random images from Flickr/Photobucket/Google, you're bound to get caught. And once you get caught blatantly lying, all your images should become highly suspect.
Of course, "fair use images" don't really require you to trust anyone, so if anything *they* should be the ones that any user can upload.
Ultimately I think the best "solution" is the same one that's used for text. Assume good faith, require references, and get rid of the policy violations as much as possible.
Anthony