To be honest, I don't see this happening even if its an interesing idea. What is 'fair use' for Wikipedia to copy and use in an article will probably not be 'fair use' for a commercial organisation like Google to store and make money out of.
There's really nothing in this for Google either - unless we are going to put AdSense ads in Wikipedia (resulting in a mass exodus of editors) all they really get from it is the goodwill from being associated with Wikipedia - and since the chances are that only Wikipedia editors would be aware that the fairuse images were hosted by Google, any goodwill amongst the wider public would be fairly close to nil.
In short, theres nothing in it for Wikipedia or Google, so although it is an original idea I just don't think it'll fly
Justin Cormack wrote:
On 25 Mar 2006, at 19:18, KWH wrote:
Here's a 'modest proposal', while I'm at it:
Wikipedia should partner with MajorSearchProvider (Google, for sake of example). Have the en image archive merge with Google Image Search. Since so many of these fair use images probably come from people going to Google Image Search and searching for the topic, wham - now they're all there.
We all get good PR from the connection. Wikipedians can diligently tag and cat images, adding to the value of Google's search. Sources are implicit, and google's spider can probably make a good hash of extracting the copyright terms from the page. Google's lawyers can make the call on any technical measures which need to happen to meet fair use - e.g. automatically resizing to thumbnails, restricting certain images due to legal takedown notices. In event of the "big lawsuit", Google can use their trillions of dollars to defend it like they have before.
Now that I've stated it, I'm not even sure that I agree with it, but does it spur any ideas? (other than that I'm nucking futs?)
Its fine. Except google dont keep permanent archived copies of the images and pretend they "own" them. If we accepted externallt linked images it would be ok. But for good reasons we dont.
Justinc
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