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