[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

Mon Jan 7 20:08:40 UTC 2008

On Jan 7, 2008 2:03 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> When assessing risk, you need to consider not only the cost of
> something going wrong (in this case, clearly quite high), but also the
> chance of it happening. How far would a policy of complying with all
> but the most outrageous cease and desist notices go towards reducing
> that chance? In other words, would be a good idea to not worry about
> the borderline fair use cases until someone complains? What's the
> chance of us ending up in court even after removing the image in
> question?

"They would never sue!" is a very poor position to take.

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