You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Announcing STEM-Art: An Open Access Image Commission Project
So the issue with allowing photography, is that it puts significant extra burdeon on the team to vet the originiality of the photo.
After aggressively protecting photographs I took and shared under CC for many many years I changed my opinion on the copy right thing. I am generally fine if anyone uses a photograph of mine in any form for a good cause without giving any attribution.
Doubt: the originality of the digital art also will need to through the same scrutiny as that of photos ?
Well the way that we are setting this up, requires the art to be commissioned and generated (by a trusted artist, who is a part of the project) for a specific purpose. IE it is an original piece of work. Now in this context whether or not a part of that work is not usable is on the artist. The legal ramifications are not on steemstem. Additionally, even here we are not just accepting any user's work, unless said work was already published elsewhere under an open access license of course!
For a photograph, that is a bit more difficult. Its really hard for us to prove that someone took it them-self. It would be pretty easy to find some obscure photos online and post them as original work.
I am likely being overly paranoid.
I am more more paranoid that you ... I am ready to have a wrestling/boxing fight with you and prove that if needed :-D