On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the Commons side of things, I think there has been an over-aggressive > campaign to extract "license compliant" images from Flickr and other > non-WMF repositories that include subjects who were very unlikely to know > that their image was going to be made available on Commons. I believe that > whoever uploads those images to Commons has a personal responsibility to > verify that all of the subjects in those images was aware of, and agrees > to, the licensing terms. I also believe that it should become part of the > process that prior to uploading such images, the person uploading to > Commons confirms with the Flickr uploader that the terms of the license are > correct, and that there are suitable model releases where applicable. > > Let's not worry so much about what courts have decided, and pay more > attention to developing best practices within our own projects. > > Risker/Anne >
Agreed. Most of these are from Flickr, for example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Handcuffed Going by past experience, the Flickr account holders are quite likely unaware of these uploads.
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