On 7/28/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
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?
I admit I don't do a lot of dealing with newbies uploading bad images. But given that most of them are new, naive and not malicious there must be ways of sheepherding them to give us the results we want. A series of questions, wizard style:
a) Is this a photo, a diagram, or something else like a logo or screenshot b) If it's a photo, did you take this with your own camera? c) If not, do you know where it came from? Where? d) Do you know what kind of licence they have? Is it "non-commercial", "public domain", etc? e) Do you think we can use it under "fair use" provisions? Please explain.
etc. I would steer clear of telling them the consequences of "the wrong choice". Best that they simply give us as much information as possible, and let them know their uploads will be reviewed by others for suitability.
Maybe rather than preventing newbies from uploading, we should simply force newbies to follow the wizard each time, and permission to bypass the wizard would be a privilege to obtain.
Steve