On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:00:00PM +0200, Erik Moeller wrote:
Tomasz-
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:05:00PM +0200, Erik
Moeller wrote:
> Let's be clear on one point: On en:, we are *already* allowing fair use of
> images.
No we're not !!!
Can you say denial?
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AImage_use_policy
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Image description page
....
Copyright status
* public domain: copyright expired
* placed in public domain by photographer
* released under the GFDL
* released under the GFDL - in response to the boilerplate request for
permission, Fred Jones said "That'd be fine"
* copyrighted image - the author has given Wikipedia permission to use
this image, but third parties may not use it without permission
* copyrighted image - may only be used under "fair use" rules
Images in these last two categories cannot be distributed under the GFDL
license and as such their inclusion in Wikipedia is extremely dubious. It
is recommended that you instead link to a page with the image hosted on
another server if you cannot obtain explicit permission to redistribute it
a GFDL-compatible license. If you do upload "fair use" images here, keep
in mind that they may all be removed at some point if the project gets a
clear legal opinion on the matter.
I don't know who put the last 2 categories there, but it has been obviously
done without general consensus and IT BREAKS THE F***ING LAW -
if you're putting such image on GFDL-ed article you're breaking copyright
of authors of the article - they didn't give you permisions to distribute
non-GFDL derivates of their work.
So even when it's legally ok to use such image (usually it's not), it's
not ok to put it to GFDL article.
We also have to make it legal to distribute Wikipedia in Europe, which have
different copyright laws, especially when it comes to what in USA is
called "fair use", and what is usually described explicitely by copyright laws.
In Poland public speeches and short quotes are not subject to copyright laws,
but photos are, and you have to pay the author for using them.