Hoi,
There is material that can be used for particular purposes and not others.
For instance logos. Many logos of friendly organisations have been removed
from Commons because they are not "Free content" They are not free because
they represent trade marks.
The fact that we have not been able or willing to find a solution for this
reasonable exemption of Commons policy makes an alternative possible.
Another category are screen dumps. Nobody will protest for using undoctered
screen dumps. The restrictions are in using the art work of a user interface
for other user interfaces..
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/6/16 Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de>
Eusebius schrieb:
Samuel Klein a écrit :
Actually, I would be content with a less-free
repository for media not
suitable for commons but still of use to at least one page on one
Wikimedia project -- I would like to be able to monitor (and pressure
to become totally free) all 'local upload' materials on a single wiki.
The technical advantages of having a single way to call a file from
multiple namespaces would still apply, but there could be strong
pressure to replace any non-free media with free media ... while
releasing some of this kneejerk pressure on Commons.
You mean having a kind of
central repository for "fair use" media, for
instance? I'm not sure it is a good idea, because local "fair use" (and
generally non-free) policies are based on local laws and regulations. A
non-free use which is acceptable in some country might not be acceptable
in some other.
Maybe I haven't totally understood what you meant, though.
This is simply not possible. A repository of fair use material is a
contradiction in terms. Fair use, and similar concepts in other
jurisdictions,
depends on the context the image is used in - usually, and editorial
context. In
a repository, such a context is missing, so it would not be legal to have
the
images there. A fair use image is always bound to its context of use,
otherwise,
it's not fair use, it's simply distribution.
-- daniel
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