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.