User:84user/Upload fair-use suggestions
To help uploaders of fair-use images and to help Wikipedia not lose possibly free images.
Inspired from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Non-free images that do not identify the copyright-holder.
Reasons?
- Uploaders may be more likely to give more information, maybe saving work for image patrollers
- location of original work (country) helps copyright determination
- more information might help future readers discover whether copyright has in fact expired
- for those cases found to be copyright expired cases, more information simplifies moving to Wikimedia:Commons
Details
- when uploader clicks "promotional photo" or "historically significant fair use image" on Wikipedia:Upload:
- display a well-filled-in example such as File:Pepper's.jpg
- add a Preview button
- make the Step 3 text match the template Template:Non-free use rationale, make the parameter order match, maybe also make the fields link to the template description? Suggested Step 3 text:
- Write a clear description for the image you are uploading in the "edit summary" box. This must contain:
- Description = description of the copyrighted material; what it shows
- Source = Where you acquired the copyrighted material, or how you regenerated it; the full name of the author(s) or the copyright holder; the exact source of the image, such as the URL giving the location on the World Wide Web from where you downloaded it; location where the original work was created; year the original creator died
- Article = the name(s) of the article(s) in which this image is to be used;
- Portion = How much copyrighted material is used? The amount used must not make the work as a whole less valuable to the copyright holder.
- Low_resolution = Is the material in a lower resolution that would be unlikely to impact the copyright owners ability to resell ...
- Purpose = How does the media contribute significantly to the article(s) in which it is used? The use of the media must not interfere with the media's original purpose.
- Replaceability = Explain why no free equivalent could reasonably be obtained or created to replace this media.
- other_information = provide any other information that justifies the current use of this non-free media.
- (unsure) Use fields Purpose, Replaceability and other_information to give an explanation (called a "fair use rationale") of why the use of this image in those specific articles is allowable without permission from the copyright holder.
- add fields from {{Information}} such as Date and Author?
Even more half-baked ideas
- Link to possible placeholder free images that could be used if a particular non-free image was rejected.
- Encourage uploaders and fair-use users to look at articles on wikipedia that do not accept fair-use (for example German) to see which images they use.
- Suggest alternatives such as a sketch, or plaintext.
- A fan-made costume of a copyrighted character might be more acceptable to the english wikipedia than fair-use (but see Commons:Image casebook#Costumes and cosplay for lack of consensus)