On 7/29/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
I think this depends upon whether moving images (videos clips) are available under fair use. Does anyone know the specifics?
They should only be used where the animation is absolutely required for the purposes of the article. If every frame of the animation (or a high number of them) is necessary for the article, then it probably makes sense to just have the animation rather than have 7 fair use screen shots.
I don't think we have a special category for animated fair use; it is probably best that we don't, since they really should be rare exceptions.
The one place where this is often violated is in little animated GIFs of video game characters. I'm not sure that's a big issue, though.
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