[WikiEN-l] Seriously, on BJAODN

[Ray Saintonge]

How many of these BJAODN pages actually include images?  It is far more 
difficult to establish that the use of an image is fair use than the use 
of a paragraph of text..  Using image based arguments to establish what 
we do about text is seriously misleading.

Ec

Brock Weller wrote:

>Because a fair use image is fair use whether theres a rationale listed or
>not. That's demonstrated by the commentary in the article it's in. We
>require fair use rationales because we are more restrictive on their use
>then the law (and rightly so). Un-rationaled fair use images are against our
>policies, copyright violations are against the law, period. Hence the
>difference in actions.
>
>On 6/2/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>  
>
>>Gracenotes wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>The way admins like to deal with copyright issues is delete, not
>>>fix. This preferred solution means that free content wins the
>>>bloody battle in The End. The only thing is, The End doesn't have
>>>half a chance of coming soon.
>>>
>>>Write out a fair use rationale for a well-known album by a famous
>>>band, or tag it with {{subst:dfu}} and thumb-twiddle for a week? I
>>>dunno, which one can be done by a bot?
>>>      
>>>
>>So why not tag BJAODN and give it that week for editors to work on
>>making it compliant? Since simply attributing the material would satisfy
>>everyone, this can be done. The result would be to produce more free
>>content, which is more of a "win" than a deleted wasteland, wouldn't you
>>agree?
>>