One way to make it very clear is to have a separate project for non-free and pseudo-free media. Keep it off Commons altogether, so Commonists have no new problems, and to use it on a project would require specific permission by that project, so that Commons is not the only repository that can be used. Keep Commons the default, and make it necessary to use a prefix to use the not-so-free media files, so it is quite clear that they are different. If it is all on Commons, people will be sneaking it onto projects where it is not allowed, making yet more maintenance work for volunteers who might prefer to spend their time creating and improving valid content. To make it less of a hassle, the upload wizard could automatically switch to the alternative project if any of a specific range of licences were to be used, with an explanation of why the file could not be stored on Commons. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Aron Manning Sent: 13 August 2019 00:41 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 22:45, Ziko zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
The concern is that allowing NC and ND would lead to more content being
uploaded under these "unfree" conditions that otherwise would be uploaded as "free".
I share those concerns, and believe it's not in the general interest of uploaders to use nonfree licenses. These licenses limit the visibility of the content, therefore uploaders are generally demotivated from using it. I think we should focus on how to communicate that the use of these licenses do not benefit the uploader, or Wikipedia as a whole, or its users, except in a few marginal cases, when it is a necessity.
There are a few options to do so, and minimize the proportion of free content converted to "unfree":
- Free is the default. Make it a significant effort (multiple steps) to choose NC or ND license. This is what the cookie opt-out UIs do, very successfully. - At each step inform the uploader, that an unfree license severely limits the visibility of the content (no media, no private schools, no Internet-in-a-Box). - If a user mostly uploads non-free content, notify them, this negatively affects Wikipedia as whole in its mission to be a free encyclopedia. - If non-free content is uploaded in great quantity, that content should be examined by other editors, and proposed for deletion, if similar content is available with free license. - If some content is available elsewhere with free license, the content and license can be replaced with that. This can be automated to an extent with reverse-image search. - After all these measures, I will have good faith, that most editors understand the benefit of free content over non-free, and only uses these licenses when it's truly necessary.
See the excellent brochure published by WMDE some years ago.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Free_Knowledge_thanks_to_Creative_Commo...
Thank you, it's really excellent.
I fail to see how these two articles "explain the need for ND". The -
interesting - article about the daguerrotypes relates to images that are
long in the Public Domain.
My bad. 1st article https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/us/slave-photographs-harvard.html is about commercial use (NC): "the university is illegally profiting from the images by using them for “advertising and commercial purposes,” such as by using Renty’s image on the cover of a $40 anthropology book." 2nd article https://s3.amazonaws.com/documents.lexology.com/10a84c6c-538e-41d6-816e-f61460946a79.pdf is about derivative work (ND): "The past year has had several high profile examples of the perceived misuse of Native American culture find significant echo in the media. These include a Victoria’s Secret model wearing a headdress during a fashion show, the No Doubt music bands ’cowboys and Indians' themed music video, and the use of the “Navajo” name and symbols on various goods by the clothing company Urban Outfitters attracting legal proceedings for misrepresenting the products’ origins as well as public ire."
It's my conclusion these "explain the need" for *some* solution to disallow such usages. NC and ND is one way to express this prohibition.
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