[WikiEN-l] Technical solution to bad fair use (was:Uploading images should be a privilige...)

[Pedro Sanchez]

If that were doable, it'd be great to inforce that "fair use images
must be low resolutions"
I've seen several megapixel "fair use" images

On 7/31/06, jkelly at fas.harvard.edu <jkelly at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>   Our current setup does mean that it is much, much easier for someone to upload
> an unfree image than it is for someone to delete it.  This makes sense when it
> comes to valuable freely-licensed content, but is not ideal when it comes to
> the "I found this image somewhere on the web and slapped a fair use template on
> it" images.  But there are drawbacks to adding more hoops to jump through in the
> upload process, as pointed out by Gregory Maxwell and others here -- we don't
> want to make it any more difficult for people to contribute their original
> work.
>
>   Another technical solution might be to impose terrible resolution on unfree
> images, which itself could be switched off (perhaps by bureaucrats) when there
> is a real need to (as, for instance, with the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad
> cartoons).  If the default was for unfree content to be less aesthetically
> appealing than freely-licensed content, we wouldn't have editors constantly
> replacing freely-licensed images with unfreely-licensed ones.
>
>   Incidentally,
>
> > >I've always regarded our lack of photographers as a product of the
> > >greater startup time consumption (can't really take half a picture),
> > >combined with our culture which isn't that friendly to photographers.
> > >
> > An unfriendly culture? Hadn't noticed that myself.
>
>   At en we have proven largely willing to say to photographers that their work
> is not valued.  We pay a kind of lip service to how great it is to have
> freely-licensed material, but it is regularly replaced by more
> professional-looking images found elsewhere on the web under a "fair use"
> claim.  That would certainly suggest that doing photography for en is not worth
> one's time.
>
>                Jkelly
>
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