Steve Bennett schreef:
On 8/30/07, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
The copyright symbol is a bad idea, as it screams out "This image is definitely copyrighted". That should not be the default.
I imagine the vast majority of images on Wikipedia are indeed copyrighted.
Perhaps, but a large number of images that I have uploaded are not. It's a bad habit of museums and other institutions to claim copyright on public domain images just because they are the ones who have that picture in their possession.
I don't want Wikipedia to follow their lead.
The (i) is much better.
For me it doesn't sufficiently convey the idea that it's information about the photographer/copyright holder. Sure, you'd click if you want to know more about the image itself, but you don't realise you need to click it if you want to reuse the image.
The (c) may be better for people who want to reuse the images, but they should know they have to look for the conditions on that. The majority of our visitors are here to read the articles; not to reuse them; I'm concerned about the impression that an article littered with copyright sign will make.
Eugene