On 02/03/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
And the harm to the project is hundreds if not thousands of article with no picture of the biographed whatsoever. Seems like quite a harmful interpretation to me.
Extremely useful one. The quality of the average fair use rational for a pic on a living person bio is basically crap and since there is almost never any criticism or comment on the actual picture in the article the odds of building a worthwhile fair use case are basically zlich. Thus technicaly they could be nailed under EDP section 10)C but since that would involve trying to teach your average internet user about fair use law it is far less effort all round to zap them under EDP section 1)