[Foundation-l] Instant Commons : INCORRECT

[Delirium]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>We've avoided a lot of problems with copyright holders on media by
>simply being very responsive. While we've had instances of people
>quite angry at us over mirrored text that we can't control.  Images
>are an especially weak point for us from a copyright perspective, so
>our ability to be more responsive (due to a lack of mirroring) has
>been fortunate.
>  
>
Isn't the entire *point* of Commons to encourage mirroring?  It's 
supposed to be a resource for the general public, not our own private 
Wikimedia Foundation image repository.  People are already encouraged to 
copy images from there and use them; I don't see why legally providing a 
different way to do what we already encourage people to do would make 
things different.

-Mark