Anthony DiPierro wrote:
You're comparing Apples and Oranges here. Drawing an image of Darth
Vader and putting it in an encyclopedia is not the same as making a
comic strip or cartoon of Darth Vader.
I quoted the license specifically because it mentioned "names" and
"likenesses", in other words redrawing the imagery doesn't get you
off the hook here, and if your excuse is that you're just doing it
for use in the encyclopedia, then you've come right back to relying
on the same old fair use argument.
Don't think you can outsmart these guys so easily, they have a whole
industry based on licensing of copyrighted material. In fact, the
most intelligent course of action might be to contact them and just
*ask* what amount of content they would like to see. If they say zero,
then fine, the fair-use haters have their reason to flush it all,
but my guess is that they don't want to lose the free visibility,
and will give us guidelines. Of course, if they say "use as much as
you want, we love Wikipedia", fair-use haters lose one of their key
arguments... :-)
Stan