To be fair, I only had a very hazy understanding of copyright until I started becoming very involved with Wikipedia and Commons. Contributors take the lead from more experienced contributors, but in lots of these projects which are still pretty embryonic there isn't a significant enough body of experienced contributors to spread certain bodies of knowledge as effectively as we'd like. It's not far off from en-Wikipedia's very early days. Other projects will grow up in time.
Ford MF
On 9/19/08, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
This may come as a surprise to Westerners, but most people out there are not really aware of copyright. Intelligent, educated adults may have no knowledge or understanding of it, and rise a protest when you tell them they can't copy text from somewhere.
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