On 21/04/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Insisting that these images are violations of
copyright will make you
sound like you are ignorant of copyright law yourself. Instead, the
argument should be that they don't meet our fair use criteria, which
are intentionally much stricter than those allowed under US copyright
law. Even better is to explain WHY our fair use policy is the way
that it is.
Do we have a quick primer on how to be a proper Wikipedia copyright
paranoid? We could do with one.
(It would also help those en:wp admins who want a run at Commons
adminship, which is *all about* copyright paranoia. Commons needs
experienced copyright paranoids to deal with the ~ 10% of uploads that
are copyvios. No, I haven't run myself yet ...)
- d.