Alphax (alphasigmax@gmail.com) [050710 16:27]:
David Gerard wrote:
Jimmy Wales (jwales@wikia.com) [050710 01:42]:
Zoney wrote:
a) Fair use? We're using a news broadcaster's photos for our *news coverage* without permission? Hah! Yeah right that's fair use!
You are right that this was wrong. I would say that it was still legally fair use *for us*, i.e. not a legal problem, but my position is that just because it is legal, this is not enough for us to use something. It is a particularly good example of excessive use of fair use because there were and are a great many free images available on the web yesterday.
However, useing another broadcaster's news images is in fact fair use and entirely appropriate in a lot of cases. This is why newscasters cover their stuff in their logo.
So... all the Wikinews images should have a Wikinews/Wikimedia Foundation watermark?
No, I didn't say that :-) I was mentioning a phenomenon. I think it'd actually be bad because it would discourage open reuse. Perhaps we could add it to the comments field of the jpeg or whatever, or at least encourage such.
(I know when I create a JPEG for Wikipedia, I tend to add license info to the comments field. [I've busted JPEG thieves on the net in the past who didn't bother looking at the comments field.] I wouldn't try to require it of everyone, though.)
- d.