On 2 March 2014 16:31, Chris McKenna cmckenna@sucs.org wrote:
These days I wouldn't dare upload an image that was not either my own work or public doman due to life+100 because I couldn't guarantee that it wont be delted. Even with my own work I'm wary because of recent cases of amateur lawyering over the definition of "permanent" for the purposes of UK freedom of panorama.
Indeed. The extreme paranoia over images people created themselves versus the ridiculously sloppy standards for anything on Flickr (a bot can't meaningfully "verify" an image) makes Commons merely seem capricious.
tl;dr Commons is behaving like damage that needs to be worked around. If people who consider themselves part of the Commons community don't like that being noted, they're the ones who need to consider changing; their intransigence up to now is *why* Commons appears to behave like damage.
- d.