[WikiEN-l] Common sense exceptions to our copyright policy.

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 7/28/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at 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:
> 1) 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.
> 

I hate to spoil your fun, but what is going to stop people from just
claiming "Yes, I made this" on every random image they get from
Flickr/Photobucket/Google images?

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