On 5/18/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not an expert, but I believe that since we'd still be making the image available (via the image page, etc.) then we'd have a potential legal battle later. Check with Brad on that one, though.
Yep, it's tricky. It seems to me that if a fair use case could possibly ever be made for an image that there would be some legitimacy in storing it in such a form (low res etc). Take the case of a map of some suburb. It's theoretically possibly that we would one day have an article about the construction of that map, for which we would be entitled to have a low res copy.
I think I should learn more about 'fair use' - it could be quite interesting. I've wondered, for example, whether it's legitimate to use the cover of an autobiography (incorporating the subject's face) as the main image of an article about the person, when the book itself is discussed in passing in the text. And lots of other borderline cases where the image serves two purposes simultaneously - one if which is criticism or identification of the object, and one of which is illustration of what the object itself illustrates.
Steve