On 29/12/05, jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu <jkelly(a)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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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk