On 4/8/12 2:47 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
> In my experience this is a prevalent problem on Commons; whether over
> issues of personality rights or copyright. Users are fairly dismissive
> of things that should throw up huge red flags.
>
> Image was quite legitimately questioned; the Flickr image notes are quite a
> red flag suggesting that it might be a problem. Trivial work with
> Tineye and
Archive.org showed it is a clear copyvio.
It should be quite easy to get them deleted when there's a copyvio
source. The problem is when you 'feel' that the image is a copyvio, yet
you can't find a source for that.
On 09/04/12 03:57, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
Yes, there are a number of regulars at
Commons:Deletion requests who
will vote "Keep" on any Flickr-validated images regardless of evidence
of copyright violation (or other policy problems). Unfortunately, this
problem is about to get worse as we're probably going to be adding
automatic Flickr transfer to the Upload Wizard this summer. I'm not
sure what the solution to this is, other than getting more smart
people to be Commons admins.
Ryan Kaldari
I'd go for an automatic bot / server process messaging them on flickr
thanking for posting the photo with a free license and how they can be
used now on Wikimedia Commons.
That won't obviously avoid blatnant flickrwashing, but if the license
was indeed wrongly set, any issues should arise soon enough, when it
isn't so bad to "lose" the images.
And if they appear back 2 years later, with infringiment claims, we can
point to how we notified them, and they ignored for so long, as an
indicator of probable abuse of the rules.