Brad Patrick wrote:
The images are fair - not free - and that isn't
the same thing. You can
argue til the cows come home about any particular example. People do. ;-)
But I would once again encourage anyone interested in the issue to ask
themselves first why the fair image *must* be there instead of a free one
(rare examples) and why it is not instead an easy way out in lieu of the
harder task of obtaining free images as equivalents.
Well, it is not so rare. In fact there are thousands of fair-use images
in Wikipedia-en, that you could not replace with a free ones. Book's and
CD's covers, movie posters, logos of companies etc, have no free
replacement.
See for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_%28album%29
Polimerek.