On 9/23/05, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm really not
in favor of putting "fair use" at all as an option on the auto-license
selector -- if you're new enough to not be able to navigate WP:ICT and
make sense of it, you shouldn't be uploading copyrighted material yet,
period. In my opinion.
I'm strongly opposed to having any "license" options that state,
imply, or suggest that the image is being used on Wikipedia *as a
whole* as "fair use". The license listed for images which can only be
used on Wikipedia as fair use should be called "nonfree" (or something
equivalent) or even "unlicensed" and should state that the image is
not licensed for use on Wikipedia. A separate tag should then be
added to indicate that the image's use *on a specific article* is fair
use.
Too many people have the blanket attitude that, e.g., "bookcovers are
fair use" or that "DVD covers are fair use", and that's just not
right. Having "fair use" as a license option encourages this wrongful
and problematic thinking.
Kelly