all of these problems are with other people than us. Our copyright license permits commercial use, and does not apply to any potential problems other than copyright. This has nothing to do with our licensing. The reason nobody has answered this before is that it is irrelevant
The responsibility for following the law in uploads is with the uploaders. It would however be good to alert them to the potential problem. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Stillwater Rising <stillwateris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What I'm advocating for now is voluntary compliance, for the following > reasons (and nobody has tried to address #3 yet): > It's a proven system of record keeping that verifies information like > names of subjects, stage names, date of birth, name of photographer, > consent (implied by completing affidavit), and the date the photos > were taken. > The legal responsibility for the accuracy and content of 2257 records > remains with the record holder, and personal identifying information > of the subjects of the photos (and the legal responsibility) remain > off-wiki. > It fulfills the licensing requirements of Creative Commons, saying > that our images must be made available for commercial use, however > currently our pornographic images CAN NOT be reused legally in the US > for commercial purposes because they lack USC 2257. This falls way > short of our "free content" ideals (as well as Commons:Licensing). > All primary producers (photographers) and secondary producers > (uploaders) of pornographic images in the US must keep records, even > if the images were uploaded to Commons by using a pseudo-anonymous > username. For this reason, sexual content transferred from Flickr > without 2257 information should not be accepted. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l