Stan Shebs wrote:
Sometimes de: is held up as a counterexample of how one doesn't really need copyrighted images, but I'll hazard a guess that many de: readers "sneak over" via interwiki to look at the forbidden pictures on en:. (I notice de: sometimes "launders" images in legally-dubious ways, such as taking a photograph of a Yoda doll, or somebody wearing a Darth Vader Halloween costume.)
I'm sure that a Darth Vader Halloween costume would be copyright protected.
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