[WikiEN-l] Our Featured Article of the Day Contains Probable Copyright Violations

[John Lee]

[[Triumph of the Will]] has a gallery of fair use pictures. The gallery 
itself violates fair use under American law, which requires that the 
subject of the images be critically discussed by the article using those 
images. As if that were not enough, the images are *high-resolution*. It 
has been suggested that the images are public domain, but this has not 
been conclusively proven, and the images are currently marked with a 
copyright of 2005 by the uploader, who also wrote much of the article. 
It would be bad enough if this is any ordinary article, but...

   1. It's a featured article, which means it's the best we have to offer
   2. It's on the frickin' main page right now

Then again, I suppose this does reflect the condition of how fair use 
and copyright law are blatantly ignored/misunderstood by most 
Wikipedians...for further information, see [[Wikipedia:Fair use 
review]], which has a fuller description of what's going on.

John