On 5/19/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/19/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
O RLY? is a copyvio, which weakend our fair use case even further.
Umm how?
I think what is meant is that the O RLY owl (O RLY stamped over a picture of an owl taken by someone else) infringed on the copyright of the original owl photographer. And since we weren't doing anything fair-use-wise with respect to that original photo, we were infringing on their copyright as well.
Which seems logical - otherwise there would be a massive loophole. We could write O RLY on a non-free map of France, and use it in the France article to discuss O RLY or whatever...
Steve