Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:45:12 +0100 From: Bjorn Lindqvist bjrn.lindqvist@telia.com Mail-Followup-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Content-Disposition: inline Reply-To: bjrn.lindqvist@telia.com, wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Sender: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on orwen.epoptic.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.61
I want the images. Those who took the images WANT us to use them (provided we reference them). Readers want the images. Mirrors of Wikipedia want the images. The copyright laws are stupid. GFDL is stupid. And the right way to get stupid laws changed is not to obey them.
Not obeying stupid laws doesn't get them changed; it bankrupts the violator from court costs and penalties.
Be reasonable.
It's easy to be "reasonable" when it's someone else you are driving into bankruptcy on your whim.
And not realizing that flagrant violations of the law will not result in widespread freedom, but rather the complete disappearance of Wikipedia is not reasonable, it is ... well, to use your word: stupid.
Your argument fails on that noone has yet figured out whether including Fair Use content in Wikipedia is illegal or not.
Wrong. You said nothing about Fair Use. You said "[t]he copyright laws are stupid." You advocated not obeying the law.