On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:44 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: ... I think this is an excellent point. Something that might make Commons more attractive to contributors as well as potential users: structuring the upload system, templates and page layouts to make it easy to contact contributors (if they wish) to work out licensing terms, or even faciltate some sort of for-pay rights system directly. Of course, a free license would remain a requirement, but many print publications are unwilling either to trust purportedly free content or to abide by copyleft terms. If Commons made it easier to do traditional stock photography-type transactions, this might be a great benefit to other Wikimedia projects as well as to Commons on its own terms. -Sage (User:Ragesoss)