Thread:User talk:Ty/Why was my artidcle deleted?/reply (21)

Your assumption that I have no understanding of copyright law is not entirely accurate. I am not a copyright lawyer so it is true that I don't know copyright law in its entirety. I would be surprised if you were the same.

I do however have a reasonable understanding of copyright law. And I have enough legal studies to know that going onto a board and talking about "blah blah blah, this is what the law says" invites people to point out how the law doesn't work exactly as you state.

No matter how simple you think this case is if CP decide to sue us, it's an expensive legal proposition. Particularly since the RWF as a corporation must obtain representation through a lawyer.

We're willing to fight defamation arguments for editors, but we're not going to battle licensing arguments over material copied from CP. Especially when we've already told editors not to do it.