The KC shooter has a website, was a NC gubernatorial candidate in 1984

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Good call on the edit, Ernest.  We don't want the jailed mass murderer to call Dave on copyright infringement.

Copyright is copyright.  Tho to be fair, I wasn't the one to report it.  Still, copyright shouldn't be reserved for the rich, or the powerful, or the sane.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Regardless of whether anyone thinks a work has commercial value or not, the author (unless he assigns the copyright to another) still holds copyright and thus has a right to control duplication of that work.  Indeed, it is not unknown for a person or group who does not intend to gain commercially from a work to nonetheless enforce copyright so as to control who may distribute or otherwise make use of the work.  The fact this particular author is an immoral scumbag does not change the fact that he has a moral right to control the use of his work.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

A single publicity photo isn't anywhere close to the level of being a substantial amount of a creative work the way an entire campaign manifesto is, especially when said manifesto is presented with essentially no commentary or criticism.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

And I do believe this is transformative under the same copyright standard.

I don't see how this particular use could have been considered transformative without essentially saying that anything that gets copied and pasted into the forum is transformative.  Furthermore, Dave has made it clear he wants us to err on the side of caution with respect to copyright, probably precisely because he doesn't care to bear the expenses the defendants in Dhillon v. Doe incurred despite winning their case.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Surely this maniac would rather shoot us than sue us?

He's safely behind bars for now.  His lawyers aren't.

Surely this maniac would rather shoot us than sue us?

Don't you dare drag common sense into this.

We're talking copyright law, not common sense.