On 21/04/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
Insisting that these images are violations of copyright will make you sound like you are ignorant of copyright law yourself. Instead, the argument should be that they don't meet our fair use criteria, which are intentionally much stricter than those allowed under US copyright law. Even better is to explain WHY our fair use policy is the way that it is.
Do we have a quick primer on how to be a proper Wikipedia copyright paranoid? We could do with one.
(It would also help those en:wp admins who want a run at Commons adminship, which is *all about* copyright paranoia. Commons needs experienced copyright paranoids to deal with the ~ 10% of uploads that are copyvios. No, I haven't run myself yet ...)
- d.