On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, james duffy wrote:
One final point: a quick glance suggests that many of
the earlier DWs
(notably Ron Davis but also others) downloaded many images with no
indication of copyright. These may also have to be removed from articles and
deleted. The downloads of Joe Canuck have now been deleted from wikipedia.
I should point out that, regardless of copyright issues, as a matter of
academic ethics we should *never* use third-party materials in Wikipedia
without citing the sources. That goes just as strongly for images as for
text.
Yes, we've got a lot of images already here that aren't well documented;
and they do need to be gone through and either documented or tossed out,
which will be boring and take a lot of time.
People uploading _new_ images should know better, and ought to be citing
sources as they upload. If you forget to do so, that's okay; but when
someone calls you on it, you need to correct the fault and cough up the
cite, not threaten and insult them and hide behind nonsense about
copyright and the DMCA. That kind of behavior is not going to be
tolerated, and images under that kind of dispute are almost certain to be
deleted on principle.
(Speaking only for myself, but I don't think I'm wrong here.)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)