[Foundation-l] Clearing up Wikimedia's media licensing policies

Thu Feb 8 10:17:16 UTC 2007

On 2/8/07, Claudio Mastroianni <gattonero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Il giorno 08/feb/07, alle ore 10:05, Mark Wagner ha scritto:
>
> >
> > Nothing will change for en.wiki?  Hardly.  If I'm reading this
> > correctly, most of the images used under a claim of "fair use" are no
> > longer allowed
>
> No, uncorrect. Foundation said that fair use images *should* not be
> used.
> The term is important, compared to "need to phased out" used with
> images with permission.
> You - en.wiki - as far as I've understood, have the right to choose
> if allow or not fair use images on your projects.
> Guess what are you going to choose? :D

Read it again.  Fair use is pemitted for "some works, primarily
historically important photographs and significant modern artworks,
that we can not realistically expect to be released under a free
content license, but that are hard to discuss in an educational
context without including the media itself."  Maybe one fair-use image
in twenty on the English Wikipedia meets these criteria.  The rest are
used for simple visual identification of the subject of the article,
or to make the article look prettier.  It is, for example, quite
possible to discuss the Beatles' album "Let It Be" without showing the
cover art, yet the article on En has seven different images of album
covers.

-- 
Mark
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