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

Thu Sep 22 21:35:19 UTC 2005

Actually it's ALREADY changed. Stupid fair use claim = delete on sight
if it's been on the site for atleast a week.

On 9/22/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- 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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