[WikiEN-l] Google Earth copyright (now that you bring it up)

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 1/20/06, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> > Most uses are just decoration, and they are stopping free images
> > being used to replace them. You can be quite lateral with illustration.
>
> Where are you expecting to get free images with which to illustrate
> Star Wars? They don't exist.

You could always make some.

> Anyway, even if you eliminate "most uses" because they are just
> decoration, you haven't got rid of all of them. And if the use of
> copyrighted material compromises WP's goal of being a free
> encyclopedia, that principle applies to copyrighted textual quotes
> as well. So unless you're prepared to delete fair-use quotes, you
> still haven't got a "free encyclopedia". In fact, the quotes are a
> more serious problem for the freeness goal, because while the images
> are tagged and filterable, the quotes are not easily removable.
>
> Stan

The quotes are for the most part usable by anyone in the world.  Many
of the fair use images aren't even usable by everyone in the United
States.

Anthony