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

Fri Jan 20 09:46:11 UTC 2006

Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
>>Short quotes of text also tend to be the kind of fair dealing which is
>>broadly accepted by all countries and is essentially indistinguishable
>>from "not copyrighted".
> 
> 
> Perhaps. Certainly no-one will object that a particular article contains,
> say, a short quote from a particular Bible translation. But when you pile
> up articles like that in an organized way you essentially enable people to
> read the whole translation. Start here:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_1:1
> 
> Read the KJV translation of the verse. Then click on next verse and the
> read the KJV translation of that. Proceed until you run out of verses.
> 
> I understand that the copyright of the KJV is enforced in Britain. Would
> this series of articles be in violation of British law? Mostly an academic
> question, I think, but you get my point. It's probably no coincidence that
> the translations chosen for this Bible verse project are (almost
> everywhere) in the public domain.
> 
> - - -
> 
> A few months back we established here on the mailing list that our use of
> this featured picture:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LindisfarneFol27rIncipitMatt.jpg
> 
> is in violation of British law. In fact a great many images where we rely
> on Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. could not be legally used in a
> Wikipedia published outside of the United States of America.
> 
> A Wikipedia which restricted itself to content which is free to use by
> everyone in every jurisdiction would have to let go of a lot of good
> stuff. It would be a very painful sacrifice and I doubt it would be worth
> it.
> 

We are already not allowed to have photos of the Louvre and other
buildings in France. This is the price we pay for Free content; if you
want to excercise Free Speech, use Tor or Freenet...

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