[WikiEN-l] overzealous image deletion?

[The Cunctator]

On 12/3/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/3/06, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> > Evidently someone has decided that fair use doesn't apply to
> > images of living people, that any image of a person (legitimately
> > fair use or not) can be speedily deleted, on the grounds that a
> > free image could be found or created.
> >
>
> There are exceptions but that is broadly speaking a correct
> interpritation of our fair use policy.


You mean Wikimedia's? Is that based on advice of counsel?