[Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

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Jovan Cormac wrote:
> Michael, I'm afraid you didn't understand the proposal.
> 
> The proposal has nothing to do whatsoever with people contributing to 
> Commons not being educated about licenses. It's about contacting to 
> people *outside* of Commons, people who may not be involved in any 
> Wikimedia project, and tell them about PD or CC media wrongly tagged 
> with copyright notices *on their own websites* or their accounts on 
> media archives like Flickr.
> 
> Please read again if in doubt.
> 

Firstly, people are NOT meant to be uploading content to flickr that 
they did not take themselves. If someone blogs the photo from flickr 
then the flickr system will tag it as the work of the account that IOW 
it will be falsely attributed, and the downstream user will be in 
violation of the CC license.

Secondly, just because YOU think something is PD or licensed under 
Creative Commons does not mean that it is in reality so. For example 
many images on flickr have been lifted from the web and the account 
uploading them falsely applies a CC license to everything uploaded.

Leave well alone.