[WikiEN-l] overzealous image deletion?

[Ray Saintonge]

Justin Cormack wrote:

>On 5 Dec 2006, at 01:18, Steve Bennett wrote:
>  
>
>Thats no different from saying if we dont have an article on Mr John
>C Popular Esquire why dont we just copy the one from the Encyclopaedia
>Brittanica until we get around to writing one. Yes it makes us look better
>but it doesnt belong to us. This copyright theft is "justified" as "fair use"
>because we allegedly dont steal too much from one place at a time, eg we
>only have pictures of all the Pokemon charcaters, so each one is fair  
>use.
>
If something is truly fair use it is not copyright theft, and should not 
be characterized as such.

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