On 12/4/05, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
The bigger mess I see is large piles of artwork
from within games or
anime - pictures of seemingly every object and character in a work,
displayed in lengthy list/gallery articles. Seems like it really pushes
the bounds of fair use, and yet it's hard to imagine the copyright
holders ever complaining much ("what's that you say? WP is using our
artwork to illustrate extended quasi-advertising articles for
''EverFinal Half-Life of Gundam Doom XXIII''? And for free?
Excellent!")
The danger in this is that it could potentially prohibit the copyright
holder to market the copyrights towards the creation of "authorized
guides" to the content.
See the "Twin Peaks" case at
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-c.ht…
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