Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-24155515-20200722170959

Andrewds1021 wrote: Fandyllic, I don't understand what you are trying to say.

Citrusellaeditswikis, what matters is how the image is used, not how many times it is used. You can display an image 0 times on articles but still violate copyright. For instance, if a wiki uploads images of each page in a comic book so users can read it without paying, that is a copyright violation. In regards to determining how the image is being used, I think it is much more helpful to be sent to the page it is used on rather than the file page.

...But that's literally what I was saying. It's entirely possible for a use in one page to fall under fair use and a use elsewhere to not fall under the same doctrine. That's why, say, Wikipedia requires a different fair use rationale on the file page of a fair use file for each use of the file in an article.

(And honestly, having a copyrighted file uploaded with 0 uses in pages probably does fail fair use. XP)

It is much less helpful in determining the basis for a file's use in different contexts if you are only sent to one context.

Most copyright holders look at an image wholesale and not in a piecemeal "it's okay here but not here" sense, but my point was the different ways the same image could be used, not the amount of ways.