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

[Justin Cormack]

On 18 Jan 2006, at 15:37, Fred Bauder wrote:

> Suppose that an image can be considered fair use because it is used  
> for educational purposes, say in the article Tiananmen Square  
> protests of 1989 where the image Image:Tianasquare.jpg
>
> is said to be fair use under the following rationale:
>
> The use of this historic photograph in Wikipedia is claimed to be a  
> fair use of the image under United States copyright law for the  
> following reasons:
> This photograph depicts a non-reproduceable historic event.

Copyright law says nothing about non reproducable historic events.

Justinc