Justin Cormack wrote:
On 5 Dec 2006, at 01:18, Steve Bennett wrote:
Thats no different from saying if we dont have an article on Mr John C Popular Esquire why dont we just copy the one from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica until we get around to writing one. Yes it makes us look better but it doesnt belong to us. This copyright theft is "justified" as "fair use" because we allegedly dont steal too much from one place at a time, eg we only have pictures of all the Pokemon charcaters, so each one is fair use.
If something is truly fair use it is not copyright theft, and should not be characterized as such.
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