[Wikipedia-l] Autofellatio

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Wed Mar 30 23:48:37 UTC 2005


David Gerard wrote:

>Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell at gmail.com) [050331 07:10]:
>  
>
>>On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:23:32 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
>><jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Is every editorial disagreement a test of "moral rightness"?  I really
>>>don't see it that way.  Maybe the communication difficulty we are
>>>having surrounds your use of that phrase?
>>>      
>>>
>>No, it's only a test of moral rightness if that is the basis behind an
>>editors decisions.. We can't always tell from the outside, but we can
>>ask.  If there is no justification from the large set that we consider
>>valid reasons for changes to the article that can be discussed, then
>>we must assume that the reasoning is based on good/evil judgements.
>>    
>>
>Indeed. I really, really doubt that all the people claiming the
>autofellatio pic MUST be a copyright violation therefore MUST be deleted
>NOW would get away with that level of copyright paranoia about *anything*
>else on Wikipedia, and oddly enough I suspect them of other motivations.
>Particularly since, as I understand it, despite much searching no-one has
>actually found anything it's actually a copy of.
>
Assuming that there is a proper owner, I wonder how the courts would 
view an action over copyright infringement for use of that picture.

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