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

[Steve Block]

Stan Shebs wrote:

> I'm not sure that review changes liability, it can be pointed to as a
> good-faith effort to do things correctly. All the empirical evidence
> so far is that we're much more picky about fair use than just about
> everybody else online, after all nobody seems to be shutting down the
> giant celebrity galleries from which many of our images are copied.
> WP's angst about fair use is internally generated.

I think the angst is generated with concern to commercial reusers.  The 
line that has been discussed with me, or at least my understanding of 
that line, is that Wikipedia's value to commercial reusers drops if they 
have to evaluate all fair use images.  What value there is to wikipedia 
in having commercial reusers isn't, now I comne to think of it, fully 
explained.  If we're releasing this stuff GFDL then we can't be getting 
paid by commercial reusers, can we?  Or do we instead receive generous 
donations from commercial reusers?

Steve block


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