On 8/30/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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.