On 2/20/07, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@hotmail.com wrote:
I agree with Garrett entirely. Even if we do continue to allow fair use, we should certainly put on some restrictions, especially considering the legal issues that fair use bring. Fair use media certainly may be helpful to textbook writers such as ourselves, but it does nothing but create unnecessary complications among textbook printers and readers (who are the majority of our wikibooks audience).
A fair use image should never be used when an acceptable copyleft or PD image is available, or when an acceptable image can be created and released under such a license.
--Andrew Whitworth
I agree entirely. While an outright ban may be too difficult, I think we should avoid copyright images, even if they are within fair use. There are just too many issues to bring up.
--Dragontamer