[WikiEN-l] "Fair use" images now allowed in userspace?

Thu Dec 29 20:03:20 UTC 2005

On 29/12/05, jkelly at fas.harvard.edu <jkelly at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>   There has been some strife, meaning edit-warring and page-protection, over the
> use of unfree copyrighted images in userspace over the past week or so.
>
>   Two specific cases are [[:Template:User democrat]] and [[:Template:User
> firefox]].  In both cases, a number of users are arguing that because the
> images involved are logos, there is no real legal concern over the copyright
> infringement.  Following from this, the passage in [[Wikipedia:Fair use]]
> disallowing Fair use images in Template and Userspace has been removed.

It's still there.

*Fair use images should only be used in the article namespace. They
should never be used on templates (including stub templates and
navigation boxes) or on user pages.

I tihnk the problem is that people are having trouble with the fact
that Firefox are giving rights /which Wikimedia are choosing not to
use/ wrt reuse of the icon...

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