[WikiEN-l] Re: Fair use images on user pages and enforcement

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 19:42:16 UTC 2006


On 1/17/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Justin Cormack" <justin at specialbusservice.com>
> wrote in message
> news:2487477A-0722-4E58-932B-D0B9B911F75E at specialbusservice.com...
> [snip]
> > Helpful? In what way is uploading hundreds of fair use images  helpful?
> > Upload more than a few and its
> > no longer fair use its wholesale copying, and quite obviously illegal.
>
> I'm sorry, did some Deity declare a hard limit on the number of unique
> images in the universe while I wasn't looking?
>

Sure it depends on the size,resolution and number of bits per pixel of
the image. A 100 pixel by 100 pixel area that allows either black or
white pixels limits you to 2^10,000 images (in realilty the highest
amount that most people would accept as different is about a quater of
that number)


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geni



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