I was actually thinking to create a flowchart for people to easily determine the copyright status of images, but lacking the legal know-how, I haven't done it.
Not only would such an aid in determining image status be helpful to people who are new to legal issues on this, it could also be used as an argument to not allow images that don't get through this process for being a copyright infringement or faulty fair use claim.
We should also have a page saying how we should only have limited fair use images on articles (and not on userpages) where there's no other alternatives or 1 such image in an article when it explains a lot (again, if there's no other choice).
--Mgm
On 9/23/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/22/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
I agree completely. Last time I checked, the deletion policy is very
much
so biased toward keeping everything by requiring a supermajority to delete. It should be the other way around whenever a fair use claim is made.
Remember that a fair use claim would come under the Copyright policy,
which
being a key policy takes precedence over the deletion policy.
In short, if someone makes a fair use claim they should need a consensus
to
support it if anything.
Under deletion policy, the rule is "if in doubt, don't delete." The copyright policy should adopt the reverse approach. Wikipedia is known for the quality of its product. Let's not ever risk it being known as a purloiner of other people's hard work. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l