[Wikipedia-l] What would Richard Stallman say?

Thu Feb 19 22:31:51 UTC 2004

Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:54:55PM -0800, Daniel Mayer wrote:
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>>Jimbo wrote:
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>>>If that means less images for now, then it means less images 
>>>for now. It also means that we have a very strong incentive 
>>>to develop free alternatives.
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>>No it means that many things will *never* have images. For example, Dolly the
>>Sheep is dead. The only images of her are either from the news media or from
>>the Roslin Institute. Therefore I used the images from the Roslin Institute.
>>The license on those images states that they can be freely used in a
>>noncommercial setting so long as credit is given. I have done that. 
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>Fair use is one thing but this has gone way too far.
>Image deleted.
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>And you lied when submitting that it is a free image.
>You should at least feel ashamed of what you have done.
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And you should be ashamed by abusing sysop rights by deleting an image 
without discussion. There is clearly no consensus to delete images we 
have permission to use.

I don't understand why you think this is worse than fair use - this 
image is used entirely legally, unlike a lot of "fair use" images. It 
would also probably be illegal for a UK contributor to upload it under 
American fair use law.

I notice that it was quickly restored, and messages left on your talk 
page asking you to desist.

Caroline / Secretlondon