[ubuntu-art] submissions policy

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

We should decide on a specific artwork submission policy for the site 
and post it on the submissions page. As it is now we have to email the 
artists with questions sometimes. art.gnome has their own here: 
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt_2fSubmissionPolicy but we should decide 
on our own. The following issues should be considered:

1. Suggested license: Apparently in order for a piece of artwork to be 
considered for inclusion in any of the official distros it needs to be 
under the  CC-Attribution-ShareAlike license (can someone confirm this?) 
I don't think we should require this specific license for uploading to 
the site, but we might want to make it clear on the uploads page so that 
people can choose the appropriate license from the start if they want 
their submissions to be considered for use in the distro. Whatever this 
license turns out to be, it should probably be the drop-down box default.

2. Submitted by the author: Currently, the person submitting the piece 
is automatically identified as the creator. In cases where items have 
been uploaded elsewhere by the author under a free license, there is no 
reason why we could not re-upload it to the art site. This was done with 
several backgrounds from the Edubuntu wiki. What is our policy on this?

3. Derivative works: some items are clearly based on existing images 
that we may not know the origin of. In some cases it may be a picture 
taken by the artist, which is fine if the whole thing is provided under 
a free licence. In other cases it may be a stock image. It may still be 
OK to use it in derivative works, perhaps for non-commercial purposes 
only. In such cases we must encourage the uploader to choose the right 
license (or should we avoid this altogether?) There is also the related 
question of what constitutes fair use. An example item where the origin 
of the base image may be in doubt is: 
http://art.ubuntu.com/backgrounds/ubuntu/1 (I'm still awaiting a reply 
from the artist on this)

- Henrik