On 11/16/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/15/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Do you wish to rethink your position or do you have counter evidence?
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Thanks Geni, although I'm not sure categories are the best way to demonstrate this... I believe (and hope) that in every category of 'fair use images' there are some images which are being used correctly. That is, the image is an excerpt of a copyrighted work which is being used in an article which is providing critical commentary of that work, and the excerpt is a necessary part of our ability to educate on the subject.
Then I would advise you not to look at the Album_covers category.
Some categories are worse than others... Historically I found the magazine covers to be pretty bad... often our use of the cover images has been not to discuss the magazine but instead to compete with the magazine more successfully by using their images for our coverage of a common subject.
Magazine covers has largely been cleaned up these days.
As an aside I find myself in an interesting position these days. I've been more active in the commons community where I find myself *defending* the concept of fair use images in Wikipedia, and then I walk into En and find myself lamenting enwiki's current fair use image status. :)
I generaly get round this by pointing out all the things that are technicaly fair use even in free images.