On 1/27/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Most money is protected by copyright.
Right. It can only be reproduced if it can't be mistaken for actual currency. But that means that images of money are not free content. Should we remove all images of money from Wikipedia?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Nazi_Swastika.svg This is an SVG image released into the public domain by its copyright holder. That's about as free as you can get. But it is not freely reproducible in Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Germany Should we remove all Nazi insignia from Wikipedia?
Quotations are not free content, and cannot be licensed under the GFDL. Should we remove all quotations from Wikipedia? Should we delete Wikiquote? < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_FAQ#Can_I_reuse_Wikipedia.2...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tianasquare.jpg This is not free content. Should we remove it from Wikipedia? (I can think of a few people who would want it removed, but I hope they aren't Wikipedia editors...)
This movement to destroy all fair use content is incredibly misguided. Just looking through the file names of some of our fair use and permission-only images, I'm appalled that anyone who shares in the ideals of this project would want to prohibit them.
Image:Armeniangenocide-streets.jpg Image:Beslan child running.jpg Image:032806 francelaborprotests2.jpg Image:Aa McVeigh bombing.jpg Image:1938 Jews arrested during Kristallnacht line up for roll call at Buchenwald.jpg
The whole concept behind fair use is the protection of free speech in the face of information-imprisoning copyright laws. The whole concept behind "free as in free speech" content is to produce information that can't ever be locked up by copyright law. I can't fathom why anyone would think that one concept is noble and the other evil.