[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and "personal use"?

John flockmeal at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 05:10:16 UTC 2004


Back in May 2004 [[User:ChrisDJackson]], who appears to be inactive on
Wikipedia at the moment, uploaded [[Image:Bushlogo.jpg]], but provided
no information about its source or its use status. Assuming it came
from http://www.georgewbush.com/  then it would fall under the sites
copyright terms which are http://www.georgewbush.com/copyright.aspx

"All compilation and content of this site, including its assembly,
design, text, illustrations, photographs, logos, etc. are the
intellectual property of Bush-Cheney '04, Inc., its affiliates or its
content suppliers and constitute copyrighted material, trademarks
and/or trade dress. This site and its contents may be used only for
personal, noncommercial use. All worldwide rights, titles and
interests are reserved."

Now, Wikipedia is certainly noncommercial, but these copyright terms
bring up another larger question, is Wikipedia "personal"?

Should we continue to use this image, or other images protected for
"personal" use? What's the US law in this area, do laws of other
nations also apply because Wikipedia is an internet site?



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