On 1 March 2014 19:58, ??? <wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote: > 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. >
Want means its an objective not something we have actually archived yet. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
