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