David Gerard wrote:
On 06/09/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On the other hand this negative energy could be harnessed and applied to the Special:Upload page which yields a greater proportion of "stuff we're better off without".
$5 deposit for upload, refundable when your upload is assessed as validly free content. That'll nip the excess fair use problem in the bud!
Sounds like some kind of a reverse class-action process. Rather than refunding the $5, it would be more in the spirit of free knowledge to put that money in a "fair-use defence fund" to beat back spurious allegations of copyvio.
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