On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Which led to the thought that hey, what we really need is a meta-project for hosting images that is *explicitly* intended to serve the other projects. We tried this before, right? But maybe this time we make the meta-project a technical implementation without its own community, where local uploads can be toggled to make files globally available without giving some global intermediary the right to turn that toggle off.
I can see every file that is uploaded to any project being available via some global namespace. Commons as we currently imagine it could become the core set of "maximally free" images: those "freely reusable in every jurisdiction".
And there would be a separate threshhold for the rest of the images. "Covered by at least one project's Exemption Doctrine and tagged as such; freely reusable in almost all of the world and tagged as illegal in one or two countries; &c..."