On Mon, 26 May 2003 07:03:33 +0200, Jens Frank <JeLuF(a)gmx.de> gave
utterance to the following:
Hello,
I understood that a few seconds of music are "fair use",
we do not distribute the entire song but only a sample
suitable to give a first impression.
I somewhat understood why a picture of Donald Duck is
"fair use". We are not in the same business as Disney,
we are writing an encyclopedia and not comic books.
But I can't understand why this
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3A843-870_Europe.jpg
is fair use. The map has been created for an encyclopedia
or an history textbook. If this is fair use, is there any
picture we may not use?
Is it possible that the map also comes from the 1911 Britannica like the
basis of the article does? In that case, "out of copyright" would be a
better annotation than "fair use", otherwise I would have to agree with
you.
In any case, an especially created, cleaned up map using the information
from this map and a png format would probably come to only 40kb or so.
--
Richard Grevers
I hate Victor Hugo said Les miserably