Jovan Cormac wrote:
Michael, I'm afraid you didn't understand the
proposal.
The proposal has nothing to do whatsoever with people contributing to
Commons not being educated about licenses. It's about contacting to
people *outside* of Commons, people who may not be involved in any
Wikimedia project, and tell them about PD or CC media wrongly tagged
with copyright notices *on their own websites* or their accounts on
media archives like Flickr.
Please read again if in doubt.
Firstly, people are NOT meant to be uploading content to flickr that
they did not take themselves. 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.
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.
Leave well alone.