On 8/30/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote
Yeah. It conveys "don't touch" rather than "this image is copyrighted". And of course that's completely wrong when it isn't copyrighted.
Most of them are copyrighted. ... We could, ultimately, use a different symbol for PD images.
But that doesn't solve the "don't touch" problem. "Don't touch" is not the right message, but if our choices are "don't touch" vs "this is PD" (which is apparently what people are getting from no comment at all.. which boggles me and sounds like bullshit, but who am I to argue) I'd argue that "don't touch" is actually the better message to send.
I think the "i" alone is a substantial step forward from where we are... but it doesn't sufficiently convey "you need to look here before you can reuse this".
I'd really rather we use javascript to cause context-click to pop-up a notice, or otherwise prevent people from just blindly saving the thumbs. There really isn't any good reason for someone to right-click save our thumbs.