On 7/28/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/28/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
I am strongly in support of taking action to reduce the amount of copyright outrageous violations that we get... But I think it would be self defeating to implement any policy which discourages real contribution. There must be some solution which simultaneously curtails copyright violation (or at least its impact) and encourages contribution.
How about a middle ground:
- By default, any logged in user can upload any image they themselves
have produced. (some way of discouraging them from uploading any other images needs to be found) 2) "Confirmed" users, preferably those who have uploaded 3 or 4 of their own images, can upload copyrighted images for fair use.
The general idea is acceptable to me... but will it be sufficient? We get a lot of "self made public domain" movie screenshots (for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ep3skies.jpg).
It would seem that uploaders can't even figure out that they aren't the copyright holder... so a soft security limitation on uploading possibly questionable content may not be as effective as we'd like...
But would it be effective enough?