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

Thu Jan 19 11:54:31 UTC 2006

On 19 Jan 2006, at 10:12, Haukur Þorgeirsson 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 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.
>
> Every other article I write quotes a copyrighted text (=fair use). You
> might have a hard time yanking that out :)

I have no problem with fair use of text in wikipedia.

Fair use of images is just a morass of copyright violation. In theory
it would be ok to allow some, but clearly that cant happen until we
get rid of all the rubbish claimed as "fair use" now, none of which
is.

Justinc