On 9/9/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
How do you verify the license? If I put my grandmother's name as author are you going to look up her phone number and call her or something? Part of the whole point is that the people who made these images don't want to be bothered by this crap.
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Part of me thinks the best solution is to just create a sockpuppet for each person and upload the images under that, claiming authorship on them. Another part of me thinks I should make some trivial, yet copyrightable, modification to the work, claim authorship of the derivative, and upload them with myself as author. Yet another part of me thinks I should just turn off the notification and let y'all delete the damn images, because it's not worth bothering with.
So far I've just been removing the tags, mentioning that the source is anonymous, and I think most of the images have survived.
If the original author doesn't care about attribution, or their rights as photographer, or what happens to the image, then get them to assign the copyright to someone else in a deed. Then the other person can do whatever they want with the image, since they own the copyright.
Of course IANAL, that's just a suggestion etc.