[Foundation-l] Fair use images

Thu Mar 16 11:42:33 UTC 2006

On 3/14/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
>
> >On 3/12/06, W. Guy Finley <wgfinley at dynascope.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Asserting "fair use" of an image is a nuanced legal concept that many
> >>editors cannot grasp so I feel something is needed to help rectify the
> >>situation.
> >>
> >>
> >There's far too much of a focus on what's legal and what isn't, and
> >far too little focus on what's free and what isn't.
> >
> You can't separate the two.  If it was perfectly legal in copyright law
> for anybody to upload anything we wouldn't be having this discussion.

As long as it remains illegal for others to redistribute that which
was uploaded, we still would.