[Foundation-l] Fair use images

Fri Mar 10 21:44:56 UTC 2006

On 3/10/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There are many examples where it is REASONABLE and to be expected that
> no changes to material is made. Logos are a great example. You are
> talking in terms of conflict. You are not talking in terms of our aim.
> Informing people by providing content that is Free for everybody to use.
> Content that is as Free as it is possible to have it. It is unreasonable
> to expect that when laws make for content that can *only *be had in a ND
> way not to make an exception because of dogma. Mind you I am talking
> about information where the information cannot be had in any other way.
> Information like logos.

Your reasoning is not lost on others. This is, largely, why we permit
fair use on enwiki. But we don't confuse ourselves, unfree content is
unfree.  In the US we are fortunate that the courts have reconized the
harm that could be caused by giving copyright holder unlimited power
over their works. And the discussion on this ND matter has been
directly related to enwiki.

I'm still waiting for an example of a reasonable situation where we
should accept ND content that isn't covered by our inclusion of fair
use.