A more proactive approach would be very welcome where it comes to featured pictures. WMF photographers have occasionally discovered their work reused without credit in commercial advertising.
-Durova On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Turvey <andrewrtur...@googlemail.com > wrote: > ---- "Steve Bennett" <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > After my recent perusals of reuses of my images, here's my take: > > > > No one is ever going to pay attention to, let alone understand, let > > alone respect, let alone follow the CC-BY or GFDL requirement for > > credit. Soon, we will stop asking for it. > > > > In order for it to happen, we would have to: > > a) Make the requirement really really prominent > > b) Respect it ourselves > > c) Vehemently complain in a very public manner when a few individuals > > fail to do so. > > > > when d) we have far bigger fish to fry. > > Open question: do you think the Foundation and/or local chapters should > complain more when their local media fail to respect Wikimedia copyrights? > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
