Top Ten Most Silly Reasons to Abolish Fair Use On Wikipedia edit
These are unordered, since everyone has a different sense of humor. Some may even lack it.
- Britannica doesn't have any fair use images!
- Well, Britannica doesn't have any free images either...
- Those people in <insert country name here> don't have fair use. That means that people can't just print out a Wikipedia article and hang it on the wall, or they will end up in prison in no time!
- So let's remove all fair use images so they will not be teased into committing such a heinous crime. Also, they'll find an imageless version more pleasant to their eyes, since they are unaccustomed to such a curiosity as a fair use image. Those poor little chaps, them.
- Fair use images inhibit the creation of free images!
- Of course they do! If we didn't have a logo of some football team, some fan would of course draw a free version of this logo. If we didn't have a promo photo of this band, we'd have a much better free photo. Doesn't matter that the band broke up 10 years ago. Did I tell you already that these anti fair use people are silly? Well, they are.
- German Wikipedia doesn't have any fair use images and they're doing quite well!
- Is it the one which doesn't even have a decent picture of Mickey Mouse? LOL.
- What if someone is doing a commercial fork based in <insert country name>? It is pretty hard for him to filter all these fair use images out!
- Yeah, this lazy ass is much more important for Wikipedia goals than the millions of its readers. Any decent programmer is able to write such a filter in ten minutes.
- Freedom is more important than quality!
- That's what the commies said during collectivisation. The result was both poor freedom and poor quality. Some people never learn.
- Fair use isn't well defined from the point of US law. For example promo photos of bands could well be illegal to possess!
- Ah, that's why the owners of allmusic.com and last.fm are in jail. Oh wait.
- But there is still possibility that the copyright holder of fair use image will SUE Wikipedia! *shudders*
- There is still possibility that Rowling sues Wikipedia over Harry Potter plot summaries, or Daniel Brandt sues Wikipedia because of his own article. Let's remove those too!
- Freedom is the central goal of Wikipedia!
- Wait, I thought it was giving knowledge to the kids in Africa? Or building an encyclopedia that is better than Britannica. I guess these goals change rather fast (or maybe they depend on the person you're asking).
- Every time you upload a fair use image, God kills a kitten!
- That's got to be one of the silliest argument against fair use images. Fortunately, I've never seen it formulated by anyone.