On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
While I don't agree that we need to take this away from the community and hand it to a team of lawyers, I must say that the "practical training" caught my eye.
Would it be possible for the Foundation to get Mike--and other people who actually know what they're talking about--to get a "guide to handling copyright questions" together? It would probably help a lot of people who are unclear on some points, as well as help remove some grey areas (like the scenario that brought us here now). This may be a terrible idea, but I'm just throwing it out there.
The problem is that removing grey areas won't help. No grey area would become 100.00% white, and if it's not 100.00% white, then people will delete it. I upload a picture under a free license, stating author and license. A few years down the road someone deletes it, because I have not given any evidence that it is. Of course I have only been a Wikipedian for nine years. We cannot go and trust people like that, can we?