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

Fri Sep 23 04:35:13 UTC 2005

Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 22/09/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I would greatly approve of that.  IMO there is no fair use for a
>>nonfree image outside of article space (excluding the temporary use of
>>one in a user sandbox for an article under development).
> 
> 
> Oh, there's *probably* some plausible uses in Wikipedia: space, but in
> the general case I concur.
> 

I remember chasing up whoever it was that put the graffiti image on
[[WP:VIP]] because it didn't have an info on copyright, and it turned
out to be a {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat}} (effectively, CC-BY).

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