User:Grue/Top Ten

Top Ten Most Silly Reasons to Abolish Fair Use On Wikipedia
These are unordered, since everyone has a different sense of humor. Some may even lack it.


 * 1) Britannica doesn't have any fair use images!
 * Well, Britannica doesn't have any free images either...
 * 1) Those people in 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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) What if someone is doing a commercial fork based in ? 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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) 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!
 * 1) 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).
 * 1) 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.