Дана Tuesday 24 August 2010 21:05:05 wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk написа: > Nikola Smolenski wrote: > > I wanted to suggest this for a long time. I see two more reasons for > > this: > > > > - We are often copying free images or text from various sites (for > > example flickr but other ones too). It happens that these sites go > > offline or change their licenses later. Having such an archive, archived > > by an independent organization, would be indisputable proof of copyright > > status. > > Personally I wouldn't rely on a flickr CC license as being in any way > reliable. > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickr_washing > > I've seen too many AP photographs cropped to remove the AP attribute and > uploaded to flickr as CC-BY to accept a flickr CC license at face value. > In most cases the person doing so is probably taking stuff already > cropped, and probably believes that if it is on the internet its public > domain.
That is another issue entirely. And in order to determine if an image has been washed in such a way and who did it you have to know its origin. > No university, publisher, or newspaper has used my CC licensed images > either commercially or non-commercially without checking with me first > that the work is actually CC licensed. They have always carried out some If the original website is gone, they can't even call to check. > > - Wikipedia often writes articles about current events, and these link > > to various news organizations as sources. It happens sometimes that > > these sources stealthily change their content for various reasons. Such > > an archive, if it would be able to quickly follow Wikipedia's new links, > > would be a strong deterrent against this Orwellian trend. > > If someone is making copies of web pages that is a copyright violation. > Unless they have, in the US, specific exemption from the US Copyright > Office, that can lead to some heavy legal issues. The internet archive It appears that so far this has not been a problem in practice, and anyway if they are willing to take the risk, who are we to stop them? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
