Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
That was me, and it's not a red herring. Every time
we claim "fair use"
on an image, it is because the image is not Free; that means, we are
infringing someone's copyright. "Fair use" is something which exists
under US law (presumably several others, but it's US law that we rely
on) which we use to justify that infringement; I was making the point
that with things like screenshots, we have to be careful that our claims
are in fact fair and valid.
If you ever bothered to read section 107 of part 17 of the U.S.C. you
would see it plainly written:
the fair use of a copyrighted work, ... is not an
infringement of
copyright.
This is much stronger wording than simply justifying an infringement.
Free use and fair use operate on separate tracks. One does not follow
from the other.
Ec