Ray Saintonge wrote:
Peter Jaros wrote:
On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 03:55 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I think there is universal support for this proposal, actually this proposal:
- Force the user to choose a license
- Force the user to fill out a field (or more?) indicating the source
- Write this on the page: {{msg:<NameOfLicense>}}
- Additionally store the license and source information in a separate
database field
What about {{msg:CopyrightedFreeUseProvided}}, which takes an "argument" (text following the tag)? Perhaps a text field after the license choice?
My only concern about this approach is that most people don't understand anything about copyright. Asking them to choose a license under those circumstances is like rolling dice. It would be nice if the license choices were accompanied by a brief outline of the implications of each choice.
Or simply a "don't know". If a person doesn't really know about this stuff, I'd rather them say they don't know, than to try to pick an approximate match. A tricky way to help sniff out problem pics is to ask for the date of the picture too, then focus attention on "post-1923 don't knows".
Stan