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

Mon Dec 5 03:53:35 UTC 2005

On 12/4/05, Puddl Duk <puddlduk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pok%C3%A9mon_images