[WikiEN-l] J-Pop and the art of fair use abuse

[David Gerard]

On 21/04/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Insisting that these images are violations of copyright will make you
> sound like you are ignorant of copyright law yourself.  Instead, the
> argument should be that they don't meet our fair use criteria, which
> are intentionally much stricter than those allowed under US copyright
> law.  Even better is to explain WHY our fair use policy is the way
> that it is.


Do we have a quick primer on how to be a proper Wikipedia copyright
paranoid? We could do with one.

(It would also help those en:wp admins who want a run at Commons
adminship, which is *all about* copyright paranoia. Commons needs
experienced copyright paranoids to deal with the ~ 10% of uploads that
are copyvios. No, I haven't run myself yet ...)


- d.