[Foundation-l] Fair use images

Wed Mar 8 13:42:44 UTC 2006

On 3/8/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> Your plea is not well targeted. Commons our principal resource for the
> storage of media does not allow for "fair use" images. You describe a
> problem that is different depending what resource you target, many
> projects have different rules as to "fair use". The rules of new and
> the existence of "fair use" material differ as well. These rules have
> changed over time consequently pictures that complied with the rules
> at that time would not comply anymore.
[snip]

Commons may not allow it, but there are many non-free images there
which are mistagged (frequently as public domain, for example). At
least it's more clear how to handle them there.