[Wikipedia-l] Re: What would Richard Stallman say?

Fri Feb 20 00:00:03 UTC 2004

Caroline Ford a écrit:
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:54:55PM -0800, Daniel Mayer wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Jimbo wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> 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.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> 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.   
>>
>>
>> Fair use is one thing but this has gone way too far.
>> Image deleted.
>>
>> 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

I must have missed a step one day.  I thought image deletion was 
permanent. No ? I am always a train late :-)