[WikiEN-l] Re: yet another image lost for posterity

Mon Dec 5 03:49:39 UTC 2005

On 12/4/05, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/05, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> > 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!")
>
> The danger in this is that it could potentially prohibit the copyright
> holder to market the copyrights towards the creation of "authorized
> guides" to the content.
>
> See the "Twin Peaks" case at
> http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-c.html
>
> FF

I think we have almost 600 fair use images in the pokeman category