{"id":15,"date":"2007-04-28T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/28\/this-post-is-fair-use-under-the-i-wanna-clause-of-us-copyright-law\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T00:57:38","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T00:57:38","slug":"this-post-is-fair-use-under-the-i-wanna-clause-of-us-copyright-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/28\/this-post-is-fair-use-under-the-i-wanna-clause-of-us-copyright-law\/","title":{"rendered":"This post is fair use under the &#8220;I wanna&#8221; clause of US copyright law."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Wikipedia game: <a href=\"http:\/\/kevan.org\/catfishing.php\">Catfishing!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m a staunch defender of fair use on the English Wikipedia: talking about things requires being able to quote them, and that applies as much to images as to text.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, I&#8217;ve been removing a lot of the ridiculous abuses. Orphaning and later deleting a lot of fair abuse &mdash; one screenshot is fair use, ten is taking the piss and &#8220;fair use&#8221; galleries violate <i>copyright<\/i>, not just policy &mdash; not to mention resizing. No, you don&#8217;t need a 1500&times;1000 PNG for a 200&times;300 thumbnail. I need a bot to resize high-resolution fair abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s grand missing the point was <tt>{{User&nbsp;no&nbsp;GFDL}}<\/tt>, whose text was: <i>&#8220;This user would prefer not to use free images if there are better fair use ones available.&#8221;<\/i> And never mind little details like the Wikimedia Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Resolution:Licensing_policy\">licensing policy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Mission_statement\">mission statement<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WP%3ATFD#Template:User_no_GFDL\">deletion discussion<\/a>, before I came to my senses and zapped the horrible thing, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User_talk:David_Gerard#Template:No_GFDL\">comment on my talk<\/a> from its aggrieved creator and the ensuing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Deletion_review\/Log\/2007_April_27#Template:User_no_GFDL\">deletion review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should be sweeter and fluffier to people, but I find myself unable to rightly apprehend the confusion of ideas involved. How to get someone from there to here in less than geological time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia game: Catfishing! I&#8217;m a staunch defender of fair use on the English Wikipedia: talking about things requires being able to quote them, and that applies as much to images as to text. To this end, I&#8217;ve been removing a lot of the ridiculous abuses. Orphaning and later deleting a lot of fair abuse &mdash; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/28\/this-post-is-fair-use-under-the-i-wanna-clause-of-us-copyright-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This post is fair use under the &#8220;I wanna&#8221; clause of US copyright law.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}