On 7/28/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
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'm working on something like this. It's already up to ten questions just to decide if an image is under a free license, a non-free license, or is self-created. You can't just ask "do you think we can use it under 'fair use' provisions" -- the answer will always be "yes". The set of questions for determining fair use is going to need to be fairly large.
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.
Are you offering to do the reviewing? There are over two thousand images uploaded each day, about half of which are uploaded by very new users.