On 02/03/2008, Brian Salter-Duke
<b_duke(a)bigpond.net.au> wrote:
Maybe I am one of those people who does not understand this.
If I had an article on WP and I uploaded an image of me and put it on
my article claiming fair use, what is the problem? First, I am not going
to sue.
You get knocked down and killed by a bus tomorrow. Will whoever inherits sue?
Secondly I don't believe you. I think you will sue when someone
creates what you think is a derivative work such as say modifying the
article you put it in. Trust but verify and in this case I can't
verify.
Second, it can not then be used by any Tom, Dick
or Harry
anywhere they like, which would have been the case if I had uploaded
using the GFDL or into the public domain. I can see lots of reasons why
I might want to do that.
So can I. However you are on the wrong project. Geocities is that way.
If this is not possible, how could I achieve
this outcome - it goes on
my page with my approval but nowhere else?
By starting your own website or using the free web host of your choice.
I am assuming that fair use is OK in general. I
could upload an image
from anyway of a person and put it on their article under fair use,
could I not? Is'nt that one of the criteria for fair use?
Fails wikipedia's replaceability test and in any case would likely be
considered a rather weak fair use case by the courts.
I am with you to here. You say a "rather weak fair use case" and I
agree, but it not an impossible fair use case, so if I can do it for
someone else, even if difficult, why can I not do it for myself? Not
that I have an article, of course.
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Brian Salter-Duke b_duke(a)bigpond.net.au
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