On 02/03/2008, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 3/1/2008 4:56:40 P.M. Pacific
Standard Time,
geniice(a)gmail.com writes:
> Certainly but just not under any fair use
criteria. If you want to put
> your own work on wikipedia you release it under a free license.>>
We've been through this already.
There are more ways than free.
Regardless, are you suggesting that an author cannot create any fair-use of
their own work?
Seems like you are.
Wouldn't it seem much more reasonable in this *particular* case for someone
to merely correct it since it's obvious that the author themselves is trying
to add the image to their own article?
You appear to be attempting to re-argue WP:NONFREE here again.
No, the author can't put up something on Wikipedia as fair-use or
Wikipedia-permission-only, any more than a third party can.
In addition, when something is marked as being under a free licence,
it's important to make damn sure (a) the author meant that (b) it's
really theirs to release. I say this from dealing with a lot of
aggrieved uploaders where it turned out neither was the case at all.
- d.