jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Matt,
I think that this is largely true. My suggestion was meant to be more conservative, in that it would only expedite deletion of media where we are saying "This is fair use", and it is being used in an article, but we have no rationale whatsoever.
I suggest that a lot of people might feel that, as an example, the use of Time covers in articles requires deliberation. Does the article mention the Time appearance? Does the article mention the way the subject was posed on the cover?
This is my poster child for why we don't want to pick fights before we have consensus. Fights are exciting and even energizing, but you get more accomplished if people grumble but go along with what's quietly become standard practice. Doing just one or two of the most egregious misuses of TIME covers would have set the precedent, which could then have been referred to for subsequent cleanups undertaken by multiple editors.
Stan