[WikiEN-l] Our Pokémon gallery

[Haukur Þorgeirsson]

> If it's such an awful violation, then why not send a letter to
> Nintendo and/or Pokemon USA informing them of this nefarious
> activity going on right under their noses?

Because I'd like them to, you know, *not* put us into trouble. Wikipedia
is not a suicide pact. :)


> It's such a simple solution, I'm a little surprised that fair-use
> opponents haven't tried this already. (Of course, if the copyright
> holder officially shrugs about WP usage, or defines what they
> consider reasonable limits, that would make it harder to argue
> that fair use is always unacceptable, so there's a little risk.)

Fair use is fine. I'm an advocate of fair use. The problem is that
*galleries* of proprietary images with no commentary are very unlikely to
be considered fair use even if each image in itself is fair use in the
right context.

Fair use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachu

Unfair use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pok%C3%A9mon_images

Kveðja,
Haukur