On 8 Mar 2006, at 16:24, Stan Shebs wrote:
Justin Cormack wrote:
We should stop all uploads of images now; free stuff can go to commons, so that we stop the increase: we have hundreds of thousands of old images to deal with. Its one setting on the software, we might need to get a bunch of admins to become commons admins to cope with the extra load there.
Not to spread too much FUD about an ongoing debate, but a flaw with the "use commons for all free images" theory is that a number of commoners consider that German "design rights" laws mean that nearly all pictures of designed objects, such as toys or furniture, are not free, and that as a consequence most interior shots are not free either. (Outdoors pics are covered by the "Panoramafreiheit" exception.) There is also a problem with pre-1923 things marked "PD-US" that are not necessarily PD worldwide.
Image licensing is a hard issue that cannot be resolved with simple solutions.
I was only suggesting this as an interim solution. We dont have processes that can deal with 1000 non free images a day, or the tens or hundreds of thousands in the backlog. Turn off images upload until we have fixed it (leave it on far admins perhaps).
Justinc