[WikiEN-l] Fair use issues; we need serious help

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 19:19:16 UTC 2007


On 12/07/07, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:

> We need to stop talking about "fair use" images, stop labeling things
> as "fair use", and stop asking people to justify "fair use".  We do
> not, as a project, care about "fair use", except insofar as it
> underlies what we *do* care about: the NFCC (which are rather stricter
> than what's ordinarily regarded as "fair use").
    [...]
> Asking the Foundation for clearer criteria isn't the answer.  We
> already have clear criteria.  We just need to start actually
> publicizing *those* criteria rather than a liberal buzz-word version
> of them.


That's why I like to put a link to [[WP:NONFREE]] when removing
fair-use galleries.


- d.



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