David Strauss wrote:
While I think fair use media is more integral to the English Wikipedia's content than you do, I agree with your reasoning. Whether or not we allow fair use, non-commercial media is unjustified.
Can everyone here agree that non-commercial media is not a *substitute* for fair-use media?
Absolutely. The two concepts depend on entirely different threads of legal thinking.
I strongly support fair use/dealing, but fundamentally think that NC licences are based on a misapprehension that injects a kind of political statement into the licence.
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