[Foundation-l] a new free image!

Sat Feb 24 10:36:47 UTC 2007

Gerard,

may I kindly remind you that our aim is to make and collect free content?
Fair use is not free.

And your remark about crippling content looks false: i checked a few of the
old versions, and these didnt have a photograph. Not even a fair use one.

regards,
teun spaans

On 2/24/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hoi,
> When you have a good quality picture that you want to use under Fair use,
> you use it as a good quality picture. Why cripple our content when there
> is
> no need ? If anything we should not have "Fair use" material.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> On 2/24/07, Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> > Well, good work!..but as others said, this isn't the proper way to get
> > rid of fair use images..the availability of a fair use image won't stop
> > someone from adding a free alternative, fair use images shouldn't be
> > added in a high resolution..right? so when someone sees the image with
> > low quality and s/he has another free one, s/he will replace it with the
> > free image, provided that you place a message on free use images saying
> > 'this image isn't free, if you can help.replace it...'...on the other
> > end, I think with the increasing popularity, people will just add their
> > images(to say: hey, i took that image you see on [[Cat]] article!)...
> >
> >
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