2009/6/25 Siobhan Hansa <helens...@gmail.com>: > Steve Bennett wrote:
>> And why do you care anyway? Vanity? Curiosity? Is it that important? >> Is a little piece of text on some idiot's webpage the difference >> between you contributing your time next time and not? Is the >> gratification of your name in cyberspace your primary motivation for >> producing useful free images? >> (These questions are rhetorical and deliberately inflammatory. Take >> the bait with caution.) > A less ego bound reason* for wanting to see some acknowledgment - > especially through a link to Wikipedia or the like - is that it is > advocacy for the intellectual commons. This could encourage others to > get involved or to consider making their content free. > Also if the importance of free content isn't widely understood it will > be harder for policy makers to come to good decisions about laws or > other public support that might impact it. Yes. It will help the commons considerably for free content licenses to visibly be out there and acknowledged. And it's not onerous for a newspaper to print "Photo by xxxx, CC by-sa 3.0". Or even "Photo by xxx, restored by xxx," even if the restoration wouldn't generate a fresh copyright. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
