On 1/20/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
Most uses are just decoration, and they are stopping free images being used to replace them. You can be quite lateral with illustration.
Where are you expecting to get free images with which to illustrate Star Wars? They don't exist.
You could always make some.
Anyway, even if you eliminate "most uses" because they are just decoration, you haven't got rid of all of them. And if the use of copyrighted material compromises WP's goal of being a free encyclopedia, that principle applies to copyrighted textual quotes as well. So unless you're prepared to delete fair-use quotes, you still haven't got a "free encyclopedia". In fact, the quotes are a more serious problem for the freeness goal, because while the images are tagged and filterable, the quotes are not easily removable.
Stan
The quotes are for the most part usable by anyone in the world. Many of the fair use images aren't even usable by everyone in the United States.
Anthony