[WikiEN-l] Our Featured Article of the Day Contains Probable Copyright Violations

[Stan Shebs]

John Lee wrote:

>Stan Shebs wrote:
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>>John Lee wrote:
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>>>Then again, I suppose this does reflect the condition of how fair use 
>>>and copyright law are blatantly ignored/misunderstood by most 
>>>Wikipedians...for further information, see [[Wikipedia:Fair use 
>>>review]], which has a fuller description of what's going on.
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>>Or that the problem is hard, and has had more people throwing rocks
>>than working on scalable solutions. I've put out several ideas for
>>process improvement in the past couple of days, and have had almost
>>no substantive response, either positive or negative. I find it hard
>>to take complaints seriously when the issue is ignored for months
>>at a time, then there a paroxysm of righteous indignation, then it
>>goes back to being ignored. We need X number of people who are going
>>to work on this steadily for Y hours per week, exact values to be
>>determined by the efficiency of the processes we develop.
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>>Stan
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>Where? Not to be obnoxious, but I haven't seen any of your proposals. 
>Ever since I became properly acquainted with fair use, I've tried to 
>ensure images I upload at least comply with the American law. The 
>problem is that when I stumble across obviously not fair use pictures 
>uploaded by others, there's no good process for handling them.
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Talk pages of Fair use review, WikiProject Fair use, and TBSDY's
proposal page Fair use criteria/Amendment. Logical places, or so
I thought... :-)

Stan