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

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 4/21/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


How do the commons  get such a low copyvio rate in images?