User:WonYong, who insisted that the contents of Wikipedia should be restricted by National Security Law weeks ago ( http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2006-January/043321.html ), claims that copyrighted images can be uploaded to Korean Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, through "quotation policy."

Some months ago, WonYong wanted to upload image files from South Korean government, but found that they are copyrighted and not allowed to be uploaded. Now he came up with a new (proposed) policy that allows uploading almost any image files. His point is that even copyrighted images can be _quoted_ in Wikipedia articles, just like citations in academic articles. He says that he won't no longer need fair use, which he had proposed in Korean Wikipedia before.

South Korean copyright law states that publicized materials may be quoted for report, research, or educational purposes, within a reasonable scope. A bulletin board in the Copyright Discussion and Arbitration Committee website (http://copyright.or.kr/) answered that this "quotation" article of the bill is not suitable for writing encyclopedias.

The problem is that he pushes his policy in not only Korean Wikipedia but Wikimedia Commons. He says he distrusts copyright.or.kr, and doubts that other Wikipedians and those in Commons do have "legal mind."

Ongoing discussion in Wikimedia Commons is here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#ALLOW_COPYRIGHTED_IMA...

And the diff is here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons%3AVillage_pump&di...

Puzzlet Chung