On Nov 6, 2007 8:49 AM, Joichi Ito jito@neoteny.com wrote:
I've also been rather frustrated with some of the automated tags. For instance, I recently had an album jacket image removed for lack of fair use rationale which I uploaded using a fair use template for album jacket artwork in an article about the album/CD. It was unclear to me where the discussion about fair use was and how wikimedia/ wikipedia could have two different and conflicting views on album artwork and fair use. I asked in the IRC channel and everyone just said, "when I get a bot tag, I just let it get deleted"... which I guess is one way of viewing it...
I guess if there were some link to a discussion page or something where you could ask for clarification, that would be useful.
Ahh. This one isn't too hard to explain, I hope:
Some Wikimedia projects do not allow any "fair use" at all, or really any copyrighted image which is unlicensed or without a free content license.
The communities of some projects (For example, Spanish Wikipedia) have decided on a balance of freedom of reuse verses thoroughness of coverage which is different from the one found on English Wikipedia. It is also the case that we have some projects, such as Wiktionary a wiki dictionary, where the need for unlicensed copyrighted works is not so clear.
Wikimedia commons uploads should be usable on *all* projects, and reusers should have a basic confidence that works on commons are expected to be legal for almost all kinds of reuse under almost all systems of law.
Because of these policy and purposes differences, unlicensed images are not usable on all projects. So, instead they should be uploaded directly to whatever project you intend to use them on, such as English Wikipedia.
You can find more information at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing#Material_under_the_fair_...