[WikiEN-l] Next step in "fair use" cleanup?

[Justin Cormack]

On 25 Mar 2006, at 19:18, KWH wrote:
>
> Here's a 'modest proposal', while I'm at it:
>
> Wikipedia should partner with MajorSearchProvider (Google, for sake of
> example). Have the en image archive merge with Google Image Search.
> Since so many of these fair use images probably come from people going
> to Google Image Search and searching for the topic, wham - now they're
> all there.
>
> We all get good PR from the connection. Wikipedians can diligently tag
> and cat images, adding to the value of Google's search. Sources are
> implicit, and google's spider can probably make a good hash of
> extracting the copyright terms from the page. Google's lawyers can
> make the call on any technical measures which need to happen to meet
> fair use - e.g. automatically resizing to thumbnails, restricting
> certain images due to legal takedown notices. In event of the "big
> lawsuit", Google can use their trillions of dollars to defend it like
> they have before.
>
> Now that I've stated it, I'm not even sure that I agree with it, but
> does it spur any ideas? (other than that I'm nucking futs?)

Its fine. Except google dont keep permanent archived copies of the
images and pretend they "own" them. If we accepted externallt linked
images it would be ok. But for good reasons we dont.

Justinc