On 1/20/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
Most uses are
just decoration, and they are stopping free images
being used to replace them. You can be quite lateral with illustration.
Where are you expecting to get free images with which to illustrate
Star Wars? They don't exist.
You could always make some.
Anyway, even if you eliminate "most uses"
because they are just
decoration, you haven't got rid of all of them. And if the use of
copyrighted material compromises WP's goal of being a free
encyclopedia, that principle applies to copyrighted textual quotes
as well. So unless you're prepared to delete fair-use quotes, you
still haven't got a "free encyclopedia". In fact, the quotes are a
more serious problem for the freeness goal, because while the images
are tagged and filterable, the quotes are not easily removable.
Stan
The quotes are for the most part usable by anyone in the world. Many
of the fair use images aren't even usable by everyone in the United
States.
Anthony