[WikiEN-l] Legacy non-free images (non-commercial, non-third-party use, etc)

Anthony wikilegal at inbox.org
Sun Dec 17 19:05:24 UTC 2006


On 12/17/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
> There are some old images (pre-2005) which were uploaded before we had
> some clear rules on free images and do not allow commercial use,
> third-party use, cannot be modified or have other restrictions.
>
> Some are replaceable, some are not. I propose that we should put a
> bot to replace those tags with "fairuse" and the images which
> are replaceable should be deleted, while the rest should be kept as
> fairuse.
>
> What do you think?

I think bots are not very good at determining whether or not the use
of an image in an article is "fair use".  Some other tag would be more
appropriate.

Anthony



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