[WikiEN-l] First fair use criterium

Tue Dec 5 19:37:54 UTC 2006

Side note: singular of criteria is criterion. It's Greek, not Latin.

On 12/5/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
>
> I think the first fair use criterium should be more clearly written:
> it seems that many people think that the part about a replacement
> which could be "reasonably be found or created" excludes the variant
> of getting out of the house and taking a picture. :-)
>
> I've been tagging as replaceable a few hundred fair-use images of
> public buildings.
>
> There were quite a number of images which had the "no free
> alternative found on the internet" as fair use rationale.
>
> Also, so far, I got one disputation:
>
> <<
> I have looked for a free alternative of this image, without finding one.
> No luck on Flickr or Google. Short of forking out for a digital camera
> and going to take the image myself, I can't see how "a free image that
> provides substantially the same information might reasonably be found or
> created".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Campbell_College.jpg
> >>
>
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