On 10 February 2010 13:21, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> I've sometimes thought that, in an ideal world, we should just phase > out PD-old and all its forms - it's often, as you say, wishful > thinking, or sometimes (and I know in my early days I did this) a > cover for a misunderstanding about just what the thresholds are. > So what'd we replace it with? Something functionally like... > {{copyright > |date=1895 > |location=Germany > |author=anonymous > }} > ...and have it then spit out, well, "this image is free under German > copyright law (sect. 473 ii) and in the United States (Title 15, 7)" > or the like, with an option to click to have it generate a copyright > status in Canada or France or where have you. We do *have* this data > for a sizable proportion of our images, after all, and it's a bit lazy > when we take all this and slap a "well, PD, I guess" rubber-stamp on > it! > I doubt this is *practical* in the near term, of course, but it's a > thought. Any other ideas? I think this is a brilliant idea and would deal with the problem marvellously. And it should be reasonably easy to implement in an incremental manner without disruption. cc to commons-l - is there anything about this that'd be hard? Apart from going through a zillion images. The key point is it wouldn't disrupt anything existing. - 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