On 11/16/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/15/06, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Do you wish to rethink your position or do you
have counter evidence?
:)
Thanks Geni, although I'm not sure categories are the best way to
demonstrate this... I believe (and hope) that in every category of
'fair use images' there are some images which are being used
correctly. That is, the image is an excerpt of a copyrighted work
which is being used in an article which is providing critical
commentary of that work, and the excerpt is a necessary part of our
ability to educate on the subject.
Then I would advise you not to look at the Album_covers category.
Some categories are worse than others... Historically
I found the
magazine covers to be pretty bad... often our use of the cover images
has been not to discuss the magazine but instead to compete with the
magazine more successfully by using their images for our coverage of a
common subject.
Magazine covers has largely been cleaned up these days.
As an aside I find myself in an interesting position
these days. I've
been more active in the commons community where I find myself
*defending* the concept of fair use images in Wikipedia, and then I
walk into En and find myself lamenting enwiki's current fair use image
status. :)
I generaly get round this by pointing out all the things that are
technicaly fair use even in free images.
--
geni