Rhobite wrote:
The image is a low-res album cover, clearly fair use, but he said "I will send an email to the record company, if you like to ask whether they agree with you." I take this as a legal threat.
I don't think of it as a legal threat, but it is a fairly silly remark. For fair use, the whole point is that it doesn't matter if the record company agrees or not: their copyright rights do not extend so far as to prevent this kind of reuse.
As to the rest, I haven't looked into it, so I offer no opinion, but if your report is correct, then I agree with you completely.
We've got a longstanding disease of putting up with more nonsense than we should.
--Jimbo