[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

Brian Hammer hammersoft123 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 12:23:45 UTC 2008


On Jan 9, 2008 12:35 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/01/2008, Brian Hammer <hammersoft123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If that's an argument to retain fair use images, then we need to
> > liberalize fair use across the entire project. The criteria isn't just
> > whether something is replaceable or not.
>
> You appear to be attacking a strawman.


You said, 'The vast majority of the remaining fair use images are not
possible to
replace with free images." I'm saying that simply because something is not
replaceable does not make it something we should keep. We have to go
much further than that. Fair use is the exception, not the base case.


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