[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Image tagging followup

[Mark Wagner]

On 3/10/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/10/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 3) People don't understand "fair use".  The vast majority of uploaders think
> > "fair use" means "I think it's fair that this Wikipedia article should be
> > illustrated", while those who are aware that it's part of copyright law tend
> > to have mistaken ideas, such as "educational use" allows anything.
>
> I agree. Is there a way to provide a very quick summary to anyone
> using this tag?

See my point #1: the average uploader doesn't care.  A summary such as
"If the owner of this image doesn't agree that it's fair use, I agree
to be sued for copyright infringement" might work.  I don't think
anything less blunt would get the message across.

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Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]