We should decide on a specific artwork submission policy for the site and post it on the submissions page. As it is now we have to email the artists with questions sometimes. art.gnome has their own here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt_2fSubmissionPolicy but we should decide on our own. The following issues should be considered:
1. Suggested license: Apparently in order for a piece of artwork to be considered for inclusion in any of the official distros it needs to be under the CC-Attribution-ShareAlike license (can someone confirm this?) I don't think we should require this specific license for uploading to the site, but we might want to make it clear on the uploads page so that people can choose the appropriate license from the start if they want their submissions to be considered for use in the distro. Whatever this license turns out to be, it should probably be the drop-down box default.
2. Submitted by the author: Currently, the person submitting the piece is automatically identified as the creator. In cases where items have been uploaded elsewhere by the author under a free license, there is no reason why we could not re-upload it to the art site. This was done with several backgrounds from the Edubuntu wiki. What is our policy on this?
3. Derivative works: some items are clearly based on existing images that we may not know the origin of. In some cases it may be a picture taken by the artist, which is fine if the whole thing is provided under a free licence. In other cases it may be a stock image. It may still be OK to use it in derivative works, perhaps for non-commercial purposes only. In such cases we must encourage the uploader to choose the right license (or should we avoid this altogether?) There is also the related question of what constitutes fair use. An example item where the origin of the base image may be in doubt is: http://art.ubuntu.com/backgrounds/ubuntu/1 (I'm still awaiting a reply from the artist on this)
- Henrik -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
