On 7/28/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Allowing a mechanism whereby people can explicitly state that for once they are consciously ignoring copyright,
We already de facto have that.
based on consensus achieved with a wide group of other users
I wasn't aware that consensus had anything to do with copyright
does not sound like the top of a slippery slope to me.
Past experce suggests that there are plenty of times where almost all the users who care about an image want to use it in spite of it being a copyvio. I do not need people being able to point to exceptions.