Matthew Brown wrote:
On 7/25/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Different case. A site that exists only to offer up hi-res CD cover
art, and mostly for the sake of piracy in my experience (people want
to print covers for burned disks). There's no good fair use argument
there, and there is for us.
-Matt
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I think the hi-res vs. low-res would be the critical argument there, the
vast majority of our CD cover images would not make a decent printed
cover, and our purposes are clearly educational and nonprofit, which
cannot be said for afterdawn. Still, the RIAA loves high-profile
lawsuits, and it's not wise to taunt a dangerous lunatic. Let's at least
leave them much less reason to care, by using them only where the actual
art is discussed in reliable sources and in the article, so that the
educational purposes argument is strong and the temptation to turn the
lawyers in our direction less.