[Clipart] Public Domain certification blurb on Upload screen

[Jon Phillips]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:12 PM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/06/2010 5:54 p.m., Jon Phillips wrote:
>>
>> oh, that is waaaaayyyyy too big.
>>
>> In fact, the page no longer looks like an upload form.
>>
>> If anything, just say, by submitting your clipart, you are
>> contributing it to the public domain, and link to the cc public domain
>> dedication.
>>
>
> I used to do that, but recently the CCPD page was unavailable - the resource
> was missing for about 1-2 days. I strongly think we need it somewhere on our
> site as well, incase it goes missing again for any reason. I do agree that
> it's too big, but don't really know what to reduce it to since your
> suggestion is "waaaaaaayyyyy" too small ;-) for a better understanding of
> what Public Domain is. Plus, I like to "compensate for something."

Ok, please make a new page about public domain then and a simple
explanation about PD. We want more explanation and still, that page
now looks like some legal primer rather than an upload box.

Licenses and legalese are important and all, but our uploads are more
important.

>
> How often will the CCPD go missing? Will they take it down at some point in
> the future?

No way. It will exist forever. Lets keep relying upon CC.

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Jon


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