[WikiEN-l] "Fair use" abuse on user pages

Thu Sep 22 20:48:32 UTC 2005

--- Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> In a project of this sort, it should be *easy* to delete copyrighted
> material. The difficulty should be in defending them from deletion.
> The burden of proof should be heavily on the person to convince that
> it is *not* copyright infringement. All use of non-free images should
> be considered copyright infringement *by default*, and only considered
> otherwise after convincing reasoning. It's a place where "assume good
> faith" is a bad idea (I've had people criticize me for not "assuming
> good faith" when people just label images as PD without providing any
> explanation and I ask for some reasoning) because there's more at
> stake here than a user's desire to help the project (i.e. a user's
> understanding of the copyright categories they are dealing with).

I agree completely. Last time I checked, the deletion policy is very much so
biased toward keeping everything by requiring a supermajority to delete. It
should be the other way around whenever a fair use claim is made. 

Please, let's change the deletion policy on this ASAP. 

-- mav

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