On 28/02/2014 01:23, geni wrote:
We could do that but it pretty much removes commons only advantage over say imgur or flickr. We want the images on commons to be free. Not simply stuff no one has got around to complaining about yet,
You are deluding yourself and reusers if you believe and promote that nonsense. On Commons you have people uploading works from flickr, and other sites, where the account that is being scraped is anonymous. In many cases after the images have been uploaded the original account is deleted.
You have no guarantee that the account that the images were scraped from held the copyright in the first place, and as such you are unable to pass that guarantee on to any one else.
What are you going to do should Joe Photog come along and say that image is mine, here is the original, and your use is a copyright violation. can you show that the flickr account in the name of "Freddie Bignose" is that of Joe Photog? If you can't then every one that has reused the image is screwed. You have no traceability.
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