[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

[geni]

On 09/01/2008, Brian Hammer <hammersoft123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 5:03 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The vast majority of the remaining fair use images are not possible to
> > replace with free images.
> >
>
> All episode screenshots are non-replaceable too. All album covers
> are not replaceable too. All book covers are not replaceable too
> (well, except the old ones).
>

And we are generaly pretty relaxed about album covers, book covers and
screenshots where they are being used for more than decoration.

> If that's an argument to retain fair use images, then we need to
> liberalize fair use across the entire project. The criteria isn't just
> whether something is replaceable or not.

You appear to be attacking a strawman.

>If that was the sole
> criteria, we'd have millions upon millions of fair use images.

About 700K would probably be closer.
-- 
geni