Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/27/06, Kat Walsh mindspillage@gmail.com wrote:
In this case, there must be some sort of special case. Purist though I generally am, surely there must be some way to hang on to a few pictures of deceased editors and tag them appropriately to make their status clear. Considering all the copyright issues on the project, it would be a happy day if this were the most pressing of them. I would be loath for this to be some sort of precedent so that everyone and his dog wants an excuse to be a special case, but, well, really, I am OK with this particular image.
Why don't we come up with a "special case" template? "This image is copyrighted, and cannot be used under fair use. However, the Wikipedia community has decided that in this special case, it is worth breaching the copyright anyway".
That wording, especially the last bit, could even make their case for wilfullness. ;-) Even a public interest argument would be better than that.
Ec