Hoi, The change of the license will happen not only for Wikipedia but for all projects as I understand things.
When you do not like the notion that in real life people want a clean print, you will find that your legalistic approach hardly survives the real world. There are people who like their jeans with labels. I remove them if I can. In a way you take the position of the RIAA. Thanks,
2009/2/3 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net
On 3 Feb 2009, at 21:01, Sam Johnston wrote:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between cheap and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on the back is two prints and that IS expensive. My point has been and still is that it is nice to come up with "solutions". They have to be practical in the real world. If a proposed solution adds enough overhead, the effect will be that it will not be accepted a solution.
Thanks for another practical example of attribution stifling reuse - too bad if you ever wanted to print something like this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikimediaMosaicCapture.png
I'd be a lot more accepting of a 'Wikipedia' and/or the Wikipedia logo printed discretely in the bottom right corner of my poster than one or more meaningless usernames too.
You're overlooking the large range (with a high skew) of the number of authors on images and are instead focussing on the extremal value. For my pictures, I am currently the single author on all of them (although that may not be the case in the future). They are released under a license that requires attribution. If you don't like that, use another picture.
Where larger numbers of authors for images are concerned, you're arguing your viewpoint, not the legal situation. Unless you can argue fair use, then you're bound by the licenses that the images were released under originally. If those licenses say that the author must be attributed, then you must attribute the author. You can't whitewash over that.
Two final points. Note that all of my images (and edits) are done under my real name; not everyone's username is meaningless. Also, Wikimedia (inc. or exc. Commons) is not Wikipedia.
Mike
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