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

Thu Sep 22 22:34:03 UTC 2005

I was actually thinking to create a flowchart for people to easily determine
the copyright status of images, but lacking the legal know-how, I haven't
done it.

Not only would such an aid in determining image status be helpful to people
who are new to legal issues on this, it could also be used as an argument to
not allow images that don't get through this process for being a copyright
infringement or faulty fair use claim.

We should also have a page saying how we should only have limited fair use
images on articles (and not on userpages) where there's no other
alternatives or 1 such image in an article when it explains a lot (again, if
there's no other choice).

--Mgm

On 9/23/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/22/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> Remember that a fair use claim would come under the Copyright policy,
which
> being a key policy takes precedence over the deletion policy.
>
> In short, if someone makes a fair use claim they should need a consensus
to
> support it if anything.
>
> Under deletion policy, the rule is "if in doubt, don't delete." The
> copyright policy should adopt the reverse approach. Wikipedia is known for
> the quality of its product. Let's not ever risk it being known as a
> purloiner of other people's hard work.
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