wiki-lists(a)phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Firstly, people are NOT meant to be uploading content
to flickr that
they did not take themselves.
They do, though.
If someone blogs the photo from flickr
then the flickr system will tag it as the work of the account that IOW
it will be falsely attributed, and the downstream user will be in
violation of the CC license.
True.
Secondly, just because YOU think something is PD or
licensed under
Creative Commons does not mean that it is in reality so. For example
many images on flickr have been lifted from the web and the account
uploading them falsely applies a CC license to everything uploaded.
If that was true, it would mean that any worrying about licensing on
Commons is void as well, because after all, "just because some Commons
user thinks something is public domain doesn't mean it really is".
Obviously, there *are* lots of cases where media files clearly are
copyrighted, and cases where they are clearly in public domain. Those
cases are the interesting ones, and the one we should focus on.
Cheers,
Jovan Cormac