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Eclecticology wrote in part:
I don't see where we have had problems with the copyright holders themselves. It would be easy to agree to remove this material if the request came from the copyright holder himself. The pressure so far seems to be coming from people who imagine that something is copyright.
My inclination would be to use borderline material, with an appropriate warning that we will happily remove on request from a properly identified owner.
This is a big difference between images and text. Our text is not only distributed -- it's modified in many ways. A copyright problem there can infect many articles later on. With images, we don't have nearly this sort of practical problem.
But we still need to clearly separate out the non-free images to aid later distributors, try not to rely on them for content, and replace them with free images when possible.
-- Toby