On 29 Jan 2006, at 13:53, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Most "fair-use opponents" realize that the
real problem with relying
on fair use has nothing to do with Wikipedia's distribution over the
Internet. The real problem comes into play with redistributors and
print/CD/DVD editions.
I can imagine any such distributor using any fair use images at all.
It would almost certainly fall under the deprivation of revenue
clause - books and CD/DVD always license imagery.
Perhaps we should be thinking of ways of making the encyclopaedia
usable for this type of use?
We *really* need global logins so that things can be meaningfully
transwikied to commons with talk pages etc.
And a separate namespace for free and non free images would be good.
Another thing we could do would be to have a project like commons
for the free images on en that arent eligible for commons (mainly PD
US only), transwiki as appropriate.
us.commons.wikimedia.org
Actually it would be nice to split out all the media to projects
like this. But not sure anyone would want to touch
nonfree.wikimedia.org - I wouldnt.
Justinc