On 3/24/06, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
D, who only corrects a typo in an unrelated part of the article, could hardly be expected to know that the fair use claims made implictly by B and explicitly by C are in fact bogus. Unless, perhaps, the copyright violation was _really_ blatant and obvious; but if one were to argue that, one might as well argue that anyone who read the article without fixing it is also liable. I doubt either argument would actually fly.
I'm not sure what a "blatant" copyright violation would be. There's always the chance that the copyright owner of any image gave permission to Wikimedia to use it - an editor who simply edits the article cannot know whether that is true or not.
Steve