[WikiEN-l] Re: Fair use images on user pages and enforcement

Thu Jan 19 01:40:17 UTC 2006

On 1/18/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 1/18/06, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/18/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> > > It may or may not vanish, depending whether or not you use the image
> > > on that user page for educational purposes.
> >
> > Please give me one example of where an image (any image) on a userpage
> > is educational.
> >
> > --
> > Sam
>
> Can I give an example of an image that used to be on a userpage, but
> was deleted?
>
> I had on my userpage a photo I took from the top of a lighthouse in
> New Jersey.  Next to it I had an image I created using Google Earth
> which attempted to reproduce that photo.  I had a couple of lines of
> text about how the two were created.
>
> That's educational, and it's fair use, and the image was deleted.

That image was deleted because it was being used to make a specific
challenge to Google's claim of copyright on the image.  It wasn't
educational, it was civil disobedience.

Kelly