[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Image tagging followup

[John Lee]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 3/10/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>3) People don't understand "fair use".  The vast majority of uploaders think
>>"fair use" means "I think it's fair that this Wikipedia article should be
>>illustrated", while those who are aware that it's part of copyright law tend
>>to have mistaken ideas, such as "educational use" allows anything.
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>I agree. Is there a way to provide a very quick summary to anyone
>using this tag?
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>Also, a possible technical solution: force the uploader of a fair-use
>image to specify which article it's to be used for, and prevent it
>being used in other articles. Can a fair use image often be
>legitimately used in different articles?
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>Steve
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Occasionally, yes. It would piss me off if I had to upload several 
different copies of the same image to illustrate articles like 
[[Ketuanan Melayu]] (the headliner image is used on about half a dozen 
other articles), especially since I think I actually understand fair use. :p

John