[WikiEN-l] Questionable fair use claims: a case study

Thu Oct 20 21:20:57 UTC 2005

uninvited at nerstrand.net wrote:

>Stan Shebs wrote:
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>>This is the kind of situation where you might want to throw around
>>some of your personal authority; there are a lot of editors not
>>getting the message (or not wishing to accept it)
>>
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>I have a collection of howls of protest on my talk page placed there by
>people who are upset that I deleted an image they uploaded.
>
Yep, people are willing to dump all over admins, but I've noticed
they get a lot quieter when Jimbo steps in. Mailing list habitues
have known for quite a while that this all was coming, but even
now the upload form doesn't directly tell people that the fair-use
criteria are being taken seriously these days.

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>People just don't get it.
>
Well, you're doing God's work. Like turning a supertanker, slow
to get started, but I suspect that a year from now, bogus "fair-use"
images will be speedied with little ado.

Stan