[Commons-l] King of the FlickrLickrs

[Yonatan Horan]

You should probably edit
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickr_images accordingly then
once the discussion here is over.

-Yonatan

On 2/20/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/20/07, samuli at samulilintula.net <samuli at samulilintula.net> wrote:
> > > Erik, if a Flickr user misclicked on the dropdown and selected the
> > > wrong license unknowingly and unintentionally they did not make a
> > > valid release under that license.  Not only would such an accidental
> > > and uncompensated release have zero legal standing, it is terrible
> > > from a position of ethics.
> >
> > IIRC, and it has been a short while since I uploaded images with
> > FlickrLickr, a FlickrLickr user *does not* select any license from a
> > dropdown box.
>
> Please re-read what I wrote. You've misunderstood me and I'm not sure
> how to clarify other than to say that I'm speaking about Flickr users
> and not flickrlickr users.
>
> > > Furthermore, there are *many* copyright violations on Flickr.  Flickr
> > > refuses to take complaints from third parties so it is no wonder the
> > > accumulate.  A second human review is a good sanity check against
> > > situations where the flickr user is not really the copyright holder.
> >
> > Yes, but this chance has already once been reviewed by a FlickrLickr
> user.
> > A second checks is just as silly an idea as double checking all images
> > uploaded directly to Commons.
>
> We've seen some copyvios from flickr. I've not personally used
> FlickrLickr, does it make it easy to see other uploads from the same
> person? Thats a typical place to look for signs of trouble.
>
> > Well, I'm not going to touch any of those images I uploaded with
> > FlickrLickr. Re-checking them is a waste of time, tagging them was a
> > stupid move, and I'll let someone else choke on work no one has time to
> > do.
>
> No one asked you to.
>
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