Steve Block wrote:
Perhaps the way to square this is that for all images
tagged with any
fair use tag but fairusein, we follow the links to the articles to
which it is linked and place a template on the linking articles talk
page to the effect that the image should be tagged with fairusein and
that an argument for such fairuse should be made on the image
description page. Would there also be agreement on requiring a
timelimit within which this should happen, somewhere between a week
and a month perhaps?
With fair use and related tagged images which are orphan, including
those not in the article space, perhaps we need to start tagging
uploader talk pages notifying them that the image will be deleted if
not tagged with fairusein and used within the body of an article. I
can understand both sides of this argument, and it seems that this
might be the best way to solve the problems posted to this list recently.
I've been on a fair-use-crunching jag for a couple days now, and I'm
not actually seeing very many orphans in the generic fair use category;
in general they are one-picture-one-article, with the hardest problem
being to figure out if a picture is a legitimate promotional image or
something stolen from a magazine or news agency.
The bigger mess I see is large piles of artwork from within games or
anime - pictures of seemingly every object and character in a work,
displayed in lengthy list/gallery articles. Seems like it really pushes
the bounds of fair use, and yet it's hard to imagine the copyright
holders ever complaining much ("what's that you say? WP is using our
artwork to illustrate extended quasi-advertising articles for
''EverFinal Half-Life of Gundam Doom XXIII''? And for free?
Excellent!")
Stan