[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] 1.6 Billion USD to spare? How about liberation of some pic...

[David Gerard]

On 23/01/2008, David Monniaux <David.Monniaux at free.fr> wrote:

> I think there is one important issue that precludes widespread reuse by
> responsible people: we make no warranty whatsoever about the correctness
> of the licences - and it's to be expected, since the licensing
> information is filled in by users on which we have no a priori control.
> When people buy photographs from Getty and so on, they not only buy a
> photograph but also some kind of insurance that they can safely use
> them. If they get sued for copyright infringement, they will say "hey, I
> bought this photograph from Getty, who certified that it was legit! sue
> THEM!". But do they want to say to a judge "well, we downloaded this
> picture from this site, where it was uploaded by somebody called
> tiptop35 who said it was in the public domain".


Yeah. OTOH, Flickr's CC search is a good enough source for many
reusers, and they can't guarantee it either. So we can be at least
that useful. If we had a search even as good as Flickr's tag search
...


- d.