[WikiEN-l] More fair use image overreaching

[Steve Summit]

geni wrote:
> ...You appear to think that fair use is some magic
> incarnation that can make all your copyright issues go away it does
> not. If fact it makes them worse. Fair use is hard. It is case law
> rather than statute law driven. That means that not only are their
> vast grey areas but there are random islands of black and white in the
> greyness that you are unlikely to know about.

Well, that's not even the whole problem.  Fair use is pretty easy
to understand.  But even someone who understands copyright and
fair use quite well is likely to have trouble understanding
Wikipedia's system, because Wikipedia holds itself to a much
stricter standard than fair use otherwise allows.

> On top of that rather a lot of it is subject to change without
> warning.

Indeed.