2006/5/24, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com:
No, this is not the purpose of commons. The purpose of commons is to be very restrictive and narrow so that a huge range of people who would like to feel comfortable reusing our work can do so. There will of course be borderline cases, but unlike the other projects, commons should come down firmly on the side of caution.
Indeed, by doing so, we make all the more clear what is broken about aspects of current copyright law worldwide.
I don't see how that would work. If we are being extremely cautious, we won't get into trouble. So we cannot make it clear by saying "we got even sued for showing someone in a suit that just vaguely resembled Superman's." And if we complain about what we have to disallow, people can just retort by saying we're being too strict on ourselves. The only way I can see you can use it to show how copyright law is broken is when the way in which you believe it is broken is by being so extremely hard to interpret.