Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
(I assumed that
there is no equivalent of "fair use" in France or in
the Netherlands, but I really don't have a clue...)
There's probably something. Here's my unofficial
translation of a part of the Icelandic copyright
laws law. I'm not a lawyer and I find it hard to
translate Icelandic legelese.
You could have saved yourself some work. An English translation of the
whole law is available at
http://www.unesco.org/culture/copy/copyright/iceland/iceland.html
"Article 14. It is permitted to quote a published
work
of literature, including plays and published films
and musical compositions, for the purposes of criticism,
science, general introduction or for other acceptable
purposes, if it is done correctly and within reasonable
boundaries.
Under the same conditions it is allowed to
publish pictures and drawings of published artworks
and files, as per 3rd paragraph of article 1.
If pictures or drawings of two or more works
by the same author are published in connection with
text relating to a general introduction the author
has a right to renumeration."
The prevailing right to use one picture is especially interesting. In
many instances that would be more than enough for our purposes.
The next article gives a further right to use
copyrighted materials for purposes of reporting.
If I read this right the estate of [[Einar Jónsson]]
would have a right to renumeration if the Wikipedia
article were published in Iceland, since we use more
than one picture of his works. However, the estate
would not have the right to forbid publication of
the article since the material is within reasonable
limits and "correct".
The difficulty is in determining how much remuneration is fair.
Ec