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(a)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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