[WikiEN-l] First fair use criterium

[Darren Ong]

Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote: 
I've just had an idea.

One of the "problems" cited for "replaceable" fair-use images is that 
they give the (false) impression that an image is no longer needed for 
the relevant article, right?

Well, maybe it would make sense to mark nonfree images in the article 
somehow. A red border, perhaps.

I know the following suggestion requires extra coding, but I imagine it 
would be possible to have a tag on the image description page (which, in 
the case of the English Wikipedia, would be transcluded through some of 
the copyright-status templates), which would cause the image thumbnails 
in articles to have an extra CSS class specifier. Then extra styling can 
be added for that CSS class specifier, e.g. red border or background. Or 
it can be neutral by default but still enable CSS wizards to add 
something to their own user CSS.

Discuss. :)

Timwi

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I think the point is that if there is a good fair use image, people won't be motivated to generate free content. It's not an issue of people thinking that copyrighted images are free. If there's already a good picture on an article about  X on the wikiarticle, red-bordered or no, I'm less likely to be bothered about trying to obtain a good free-content image of X.



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