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James D. Forrester wrote:
Michael Snow wrote:
"Fair use" is laziness too in many cases. But my point was that if you're going to the trouble of asking for permission, which is otherwise commendable, it is lazy and counterproductive not to take the very simple step of asking for permission *under a free license*.
Well, it's rare to get permission for GFDL licensing or whatever; I've managed to get loads of replies which are happy to give Wikipedia a licence, but will not be able to license under GFDL/CC-BY/etc. - dozens and dozens of them. Some of them, I noted, ended up just being grabbed and copied for fair use instead (by other users), which is more than just a little dispiriting.
Unfortunately, the biggest hurdle seems to be the commercial use aspect. I tried to obtain permission for a (what turned out to be unfree) Featured Picture. The image we had was a lower-resolution version of a very large, high-quality composite photo. Permission was refused solely on the basis that their photo could be used *by anyone who wanted to* for commercial purposes. People seem to be absolutely paranoid about copyright.
IANAL, and is seems that the people we commonly ask permission from are in the same position.
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