It would make sense to have a system like that actually, but how regularly would it be used? I can't imagine a significant uptake of this 'internet res : high res' 'try before you buy' style release of images. Most people would be using the image in a school assignment / for a work publication etc. and could do perfectly fine with a 72dpi image.
On 9/3/06, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Stephen Streater wrote:
On 2 Sep 2006, at 20:00, Fastfission wrote:
On 9/2/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Nice attempt to overrule Jimbos edict against 'with permissions' images.
[snip]
Please don't encourage a regression to a point where we permit images that others couldn't claim fair use for simply because people will give us permission to display them on their website.
Regression? This is the status quo, as far as I can see.
A significant number of people will be willing to release images for free if asked.
Perhaps in this case the owner could release an internet resolution image with the presumption that someone who wanted to print it would want much higher resolution and would still pay for this.
And of course he may lose no income from internet images anyway in practice.
How about encouraging the use of suitable boilerplate wording for use in the image copyright notice, that says something like:
"This low resolution version of a copyrighted image is used under by permission from its copyright owner, Example Corporation, who have made it available for use under the GFDL: please see [[WP:GFDL]] for license terms."
"High-resolution versions of this image are available for use under commercial license terms directly from the copyright owner; please contact Example Corporation for more details, at http://www.example.com/image-licencing/example-image-reference-code."
generated by:
{{subst:low-res under GFDL|Example Corporation|http://www.example.com/image-licencing/example-image-reference-code%7D%7D
-- Neil
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