[WikiEN-l] Image tagging: 33 months later

[Phil Nash]

David Gerard wrote:
>> 2008/12/23 Wilhelm Schnotz <wilhelm at nixeagle.org>:
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Gregory Maxwell
>>> <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Judson Dunn
>>>> <cohesion at sleepyhead.org> wrote:
>>
>>>>> That's good news, thanks for doing this research! I bet there's
>>>>> some confusion abotu what self-created means, but I can't think
>>>>> of a better term for it really. "creation" is such a nebulous
>>>>> concept for many people.
>>
>>>> Is "I am the sole author" more clear?
>>
>>> Not really, some folks think simply scanning an image makes them the
>>> "sole author". (of course the scanned image is a derivative of the
>>> original...)
>>
>>
>> Despite much effort by media companies, people still don't think
>> copying is inherently wrong. The internet folk cultures tend to
>> settle on something sort of like CC by-nc-sa, where you count as
>> "creator" of something even if the base image wasn't originally
>> yours.
>>
>> I wonder what wording would work:
>>
>> "I created this from scratch"
>> "I am the creator and copyright owner of the original base image"
>>
>> something else?
>>
>> "I own" is too often taken to mean "I own the book I scanned it from"

As I pointed out many hours ago, but I'm still waiting for that post to be 
moderated.