How many of these BJAODN pages actually include images? It is far more difficult to establish that the use of an image is fair use than the use of a paragraph of text.. Using image based arguments to establish what we do about text is seriously misleading.
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Brock Weller wrote:
Because a fair use image is fair use whether theres a rationale listed or not. That's demonstrated by the commentary in the article it's in. We require fair use rationales because we are more restrictive on their use then the law (and rightly so). Un-rationaled fair use images are against our policies, copyright violations are against the law, period. Hence the difference in actions.
On 6/2/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Gracenotes wrote:
The way admins like to deal with copyright issues is delete, not fix. This preferred solution means that free content wins the bloody battle in The End. The only thing is, The End doesn't have half a chance of coming soon.
Write out a fair use rationale for a well-known album by a famous band, or tag it with {{subst:dfu}} and thumb-twiddle for a week? I dunno, which one can be done by a bot?
So why not tag BJAODN and give it that week for editors to work on making it compliant? Since simply attributing the material would satisfy everyone, this can be done. The result would be to produce more free content, which is more of a "win" than a deleted wasteland, wouldn't you agree?