Thread:Sakaros/@comment-97.120.126.242-20180415011657/@comment-104549-20180415020408

Candidly, I actually am a lawyer (although this still isn't legal advice, just casual musing), and I share your skepticism about the application of Fair Use in this context; I think the strongest argument is the lack of profit, but I've personally refrained from using Fair Use to justify any of my own images, all of which are either my own work or commissioned pieces posted with the permission of the artist. But I don't find the argument for the application of Fair Use so baseless that I'd press for a change in the Image Policy to exclude it. Ultimately, each user uploading or using an image makes the assertion of Fair Use; SWFanon staff (lawyers and non-lawyers alike) refuse on principle to give advice about whether it's actually right.