[WikiEN-l] Re: Fair use images on user pages and enforcement

Thu Jan 19 09:02:25 UTC 2006

Justin Cormack wrote:

> I was very involved in the fair use project until a few months ago
> when I realised that there was no hope and "fair use" will destroy
> wikipedia.

I don't think that it's as dramatic as that.

> I am now mostly contributing to commons and writing a few
> articles. I am still interested (when I get time) in writing tools
> to make it easier to fork a free version of wikipedia without fair use
> images. 

Of course.  But if the fair use images are properly marked it should be 
easy to remove them from the fork.

Ec