On 22/07/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
WMF would probably do best to distance itself from these issues. It has too much to lose from a wrong decision. The fundamental premise should be that the uploader of material has the primary responsibility for establishing the copyright status of what he provides. At the same time it needs to safeguard its founding principle that it is providing an free access resource. I certainly have ideas for attempting to reconcile these concepts, but I'll save them for another time.
Well, the thing is, a huge part of Commons' role is to play Media Copyright Police. And as this thread has shown it is really, really, hard. The same issues keep coming up again and again, no satisfactory results, it's like arguing with windmills. Having the same debates again and again is very weary-making. It's easy enough to upload at Commons then forget about it, but each project is only as strong as its weakest link, and then it comes to copyright, that could well be Commons. So this thread is me asking for help. Is it not the WMF's role to support and help its projects?
Regards, Brianna