On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If we don't maintain the focus on free media, we
may as well direct people
to a web image search, all of which is "use at your own risk" anyway, just
like our proposed new repository. Being free content is the Commons value
add over Google Images or the like. Keeping a nonfree image repository
adds... what?
It allows free reuse of images which fall under the fair use criteria
between separate Projects, without directly copying them N times between
the projects, which is an obvious and self evident waste of time and disk
space.
If fair use is allowed at all, and it is, then we should support
inter-project reuse on a reasonable basis. What Commons has become with
its copyright Stazi is no longer acceptable as a component of a project
whose educational goal has always and must remain an equally balanced part
of its total portfolio.
This is not a call to disband Commons; the project and world benefit from
that existing as is. But we need an alternative to support the educational
mission, reasonable inter-project reuse, and end the endless deletion wars.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com