>I'd take the pragmatic justification for being
copyright-sticklers on
Commons to be: so we can provide a free-media repository that
our
reusers can use, even commercially and world-wide, in the reasonably
secure belief that their reuse is legal, because this is truly freely
licensed media.
Compare and contrast to the goal of illustrating an encyclopedia with the
best images available, making use of American fair use law to which such
illustrations are legally entitled.
Tim Davenport
"Carrite" on WP
Corvallis, OR