nonfree.wikipedia.org (was Re: [Wikipedia-l] What would Richard Stallman say?)

Fri Feb 20 07:46:51 UTC 2004

if I understood well, you suggest having a
database of fair use images which can be
hyperlinked from Wikipedia articles but they will
never be inline.

If I understood correctly then I agree! According
to my moral standards this is ok. However I
cannot talk about the law because IANAL.

--Optim

--- Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2004, at 21:08, Delirium wrote:
> > There is the aggregation defense that has
> been alluded to, but I think 
> > inserting an image in-line in an article is
> clearly making it part of 
> > the article as one work, not merely
> distributing it on the same 
> > medium.  If all the images were on separate
> pages (as in an appendix, 
> > perhaps), then that'd be another matter.
> 
> On that note, a question for the folks who
> aren't willing to give up 
> "fair use images": would an 'appendix' system
> be acceptable to you?
> 
> What I'm envisioning is an associated site to
> which non-PD non-GFDL 
>
but-probably-ok-under-fair-use-for-a-non-profit-encyclopedia
> could be 
> uploaded and linked _from there_ to Wikipedia
> article names. The page 
> display on *.wikipedia.org could see when
> there's an associated page 
> and include a more or less prominent link to
> the photo/media page. (For 
> those familiar with Ward's Wiki, this would be
> similar to how 
> SisterSites links work.)
> 
> To summarize:
> * images which can only be justified as "fair
> use" (for some uses, in 
> the US only) would not be uploaded to Wikipedia
> itself, embedded in 
> Wikipedia articles, or included in basic
> Wikipedia page/media dumps
> * but those images could be made available
> through Wikimedia's sites 
> (for acceptably fair use, in the US) and
> hyperlinked to Wikipedia 
> articles (not inline)
> * redistributors who determined the images were
> ok could still take them
> * redistributors who might not be able to use
> them don't have to mess 
> with it
> 
> Would this be acceptable from legal, moral, and
> other standpoints?
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 

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