[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

[geni]

On 12/01/2008, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> If we write an article on Hilary Clinton and can only get a fair use image
> in the 12-36 hours the story is current, is it appropriate to replace that
> image in 10 years with a current image? Remember, this would be on an
> article dated January 12, 2008 with the potential replacement being in 2018.
>

The problem is that under those conditions any claim of fair use would
be pretty weak since you are likely to be using the pictures for the
exact use they were originally created for.
-- 
geni