On 5/21/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Anthony DiPierro
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He's an admin, you're a banned user.
Well, that's not true. You should check your facts.
IHBT. IHL. HAND.
My point is that claiming to be the creator of a photograph you didn't take is a bit rich when you are assigning a free license to it.
Depends on the circumstances.
Claiming fair use seems to be a better way of going about it.
Only if the photo was not released under a free license.
We use fair use images non-controversially to illustrate biographical articles, why not do the same thing for user pages, which are similar in nature?
There's a stupid rule saying it's not allowed.
Pete, wondering if common sense might apply here
Anthony