[WikiEN-l] More fair use image overreaching

[geni]

On 02/03/2008, WJhonson at aol.com <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
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>  In a message dated 3/2/2008 12:00:03 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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> saintonge at telus.net writes:
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>  IIRC  some people were claiming
>  that he should have gotten permission from the  convenient passerby who
>  actually snapped the shot before he put the  picture online.>>
>
>
>
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>
>  A good example of the kind of ridiculous behaviour that causes people to
>  leave the project, and which harms the project.  Bureaucratic adherence to  some
>  letter or worse a fixated interpretation of some policy, instead of making
>  any attempt to understand the *spirit* of what we're trying to do.

The spirit of what we are trying to do is an irrelevance in this case.
It is a question of law. The answer FWIW appears to be that it is an
issue of contract law and no we've asked appears to be sure of the
answer.




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geni