On 5/17/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
It's harder to do with this... We have to constantly fight against the fact that many people's instincts WRT copyright tell them to do the wrong thing. "I made this screenshot of the starwars movie, I own the copyright, and I release it into the public domain".
IMHO this is not likely to be such a big problem. As many have pointed out, linkable images are likely to be very rarely used outside the article space. If they're abused, we can deal with the problem them.
The attribution requirements differ somewhat from license to license but overall we're in a good position if the attribution and license data (it's not just attribution btw, the majority of copyleft licenses require you to tell the recipient what license it's under) is
- Easily and obviously accessable, not obscured or hidden
Well we've suggested ways of doing this.
You really, really don't want MediaWiki to allow linkable images?
Excuse me? I really want us to have linkable images which we can actually use, i.e. ones that don't create copyright problems.
I feel that you're throwing an un-necessarily wet blanket on this. Having formed that opinion, I'll shut up about it now.
Shall I say "You really, really don't want to behave legally and ethically in regard to the content we've taken from others?" and complete the cycle of pointless accusations?
If you like.
Steve