On Friday 11 January 2008 22:55, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
"normal people from a select few commonwealth states". Fair use is not a ubiquitous international right, and in many cases, there are people who can't reuse our content because they are not permitted to use fair use materials.
Someone who lives in a jurisdiction that does not allow fair use and wants to use images could simply and easily ignore fair use images. By the same argument you could argue for removing all quotes from Wikipedia because they are fair use too.
Pictures of fictional characters from old or obscure television shows do not. There is a difference between images which are necessary, and images which are used purely for decoration. The decoration images should be removed.
I see a bias here against old and obscure TV shows. Why should fictional characters from new and famous TV shows be illustrated with images, and fictional characters from old and obscure TV shows not be?
Seriously, fictional characters are a good case for fair use. You can't really convey meaningful information about them if you don't show how they look.