[WikiEN-l] Next step in "fair use" cleanup?

[Justin Cormack]

On 24 Mar 2006, at 12:12, Steve Bennett wrote:

> On 3/24/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:
>> D, who only corrects a typo in an unrelated part of the article,  
>> could
>> hardly be expected to know that the fair use claims made implictly  
>> by B
>> and explicitly by C are in fact bogus.  Unless, perhaps, the  
>> copyright
>> violation was _really_ blatant and obvious; but if one were to argue
>> that, one might as well argue that anyone who read the article  
>> without
>> fixing it is also liable.  I doubt either argument would actually  
>> fly.
>
> I'm not sure what a "blatant" copyright violation would be. There's
> always the chance that the copyright owner of any image gave
> permission to Wikimedia to use it - an editor who simply edits the
> article cannot know whether that is true or not.

We dont accept "with permission" images, and we dont accept anything
that is not verifiable by someone else. So there would be supporting
documentation somewhere for that case.

Justinc