On 7/26/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
I think this is absolutely the case. And I also think that's why legal compliance issues should be left to the official agents of the organization to worry about.
The focus of the rest of us should be on how to make the best free encyclopedia. Sure, this means not including copyright violations, but not with the sense of urgency that some seem to be suggesting.
Copyviois disscourage people from going to the effort to create free content.
Such a focus would also imply that images which aren't included in any pages, and images which are only included on user pages (for instance), are an even lower priority.
They are however easy targets. Dealing with boarderline fair use stuff is a pain so we tend to focus on the easy stuff first in order than limited rescources have the biggest impact.