On 9/27/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/09/2007, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/27/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
We do not tolerate unfree text to any significant extent. We do tolerate a level of unfree media. Thus we put free media behind other content.
This is simply not true; we have significant (important informational content, useful) quotations from other works sprinkled liberally throughout the Encyclopedia.
And this is a good thing.
And this is entirely and unquestionably (by any reasonable person) legal under fair use.
Close on 50% of the images on en are non free. Text on the other hand? A few percent maybe.
Of course, 100% of the images on en. should be nonfree - any free image should be on commons. Combine with a host of bias factors (depth of coverage, the fact that it's much easier to obtain unfree images than free images, et cetera) means that we're probably looking at a real fraction of images that's much smaller.
WilyD