On 9/12/05, Ryan Norton wxprojects@comcast.net wrote:
On Monday, September 12, 2005, at 11:54 AM, uninvited@nerstrand.net wrote:
So would a policy that states, specifically, that images taken from present-day news sources or wire services are against Wikipedia policy, regardless of the fair use case that the uploader thinks may apply.
How do you define "present day"? The only case for that and say, 10 years ago, is that doing it now might cause more bad press... but if you're going to do this you may as well just prohibit it altogether.
I would think that in a case like this "present day" would apply to images that are still current, for which there is still significant demand from the wire services. In other words, if a lot of people are still buying the images from the wire services, if these images are still bringing traffic to news sites that pay for them, then we should probably not be using them and calling it "fair use" - with the obvious exception of things like a screen-shot of a news site in a story about that news site (say, for example, the NYTimes mistakenly posted Cheney's obituary tomorrow, we should be able to use a screen shot of their web site, which might happen to include other images, and call it fair use).
Ian