Gerard Meijssen schrieb:
The idea of Commons is to have a repository of material that can be used
in the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation and that is freely licensed
as such. The notion of "fair use" is open in many jurisdictions and it
is for this reason that the English Wikipedia insists on using this.
Fair use has nothing to do with this. And it's not applicable to commons.
If Commons does not want this material we might want
to have a second
repository for such material. It would then be for individual projects
to accept this material or not. The appreciation of what Commons is
about seems also open for interpretation :)
We might as well allow "for wikipedia only" material. because that's what
this
basically is: "safe enough for us, but we can't promis it's really
free". We
would no longer be a free-content-only project.
What we should lobby for is more sensible laws about orphan works. Museums would
be great allies in this. Until now, they don't care much, because they don't get
sued. Perhaps we can make them care a little more.
-- daniel
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