[WikiEN-l] Fair use images on user pages and enforcement

Matt Brown morven at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 04:29:30 UTC 2006


On 1/16/06, Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
> Helpful? In what way is uploading hundreds of fair use images
> helpful? Upload more than a few and its
> no longer fair use its wholesale copying, and quite obviously illegal.

I don't see it as necessarily so.  An editor who's been here a long
time and made a lot of contributions may have uploaded, over time,
hundreds of fair use images without doing "wholesale copying".  And
the legality of it depends on the fair use rationale, doesn't it?

-Matt



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