On 9/12/05, Ryan Norton <wxprojects(a)comcast.net> wrote:
On Monday, September 12, 2005, at 11:54 AM, uninvited(a)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