On 24 Mar 2006, at 12:12, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/24/06, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
D, who only corrects a typo in an unrelated part of the article, could hardly be expected to know that the fair use claims made implictly by B and explicitly by C are in fact bogus. Unless, perhaps, the copyright violation was _really_ blatant and obvious; but if one were to argue that, one might as well argue that anyone who read the article without fixing it is also liable. I doubt either argument would actually fly.
I'm not sure what a "blatant" copyright violation would be. There's always the chance that the copyright owner of any image gave permission to Wikimedia to use it - an editor who simply edits the article cannot know whether that is true or not.
We dont accept "with permission" images, and we dont accept anything that is not verifiable by someone else. So there would be supporting documentation somewhere for that case.
Justinc