[WikiEN-l] "Fair use" images of living people

Sat Nov 25 02:52:27 UTC 2006

On 11/24/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> There is nothing obvious about a copyvio when you can't identify its
> source.  You may have very strong suspicions about the matter, but that
> does not establish the fact.  I don't know what the standards are for
> drawings in ship construction, but I'm sure that there are bound to be
> some aspects that will be constant.  Are these even copyrightable?

The very fact that someone is claiming scans from a book were
self-produced CAD drawings says they should be deleted.  No matter
what, the claim of self-authorship is bogus.

-Matt