--- Julie Kemp <juleskemp(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Jens said:
But I can't understand why this
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3A843-870_Europe.jpg
is fair use. The map has been created for an
encyclopedia
or an history textbook. If this is fair use, is
there any
picture we may not use?
I reply --
This is actually interesting -- when DW (or Elliot)
put this up many
months ago, I asked for a reference. I claimed then
that this map was
likely not in fair use. My reasoning was as
follows: When I was
finishing my thesis in 2000, I was desperate for
maps. I found this
map, along with a couple others that this person put
up, at the UW
library. I didn't have time to write for
permission, and checked the
copyright with the librarians, who said I could only
use it under fair
use if I altered the image dramatically, because it
was still under
copyright. Unfortunately, I can't tell you the
source -- I had a couple
maps copied, traced the parts I needed (the
coastlines and rivers) by
hand, scanned them, and labeled them as necessary.
Anyway, I think we
shouldn't use any images unless we can definitively
say where they're
from -- from what the librarian at my present
college says, one still
has to credit image sources for fair use, or it
isn't fair use.
Julie
Agreed. Wikipedia should have its own mapping system.
Where I could put ecoregions too :-)
Which could be discussed at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediatlas
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