On 11/19/05, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Maybe I'm just not as worried about the downstream users as you.
It's not "me" who cares about whether or not "educational-use only" restrictions harm downstream use. Honestly, if it were up to me alone I'd probably allow non-profit and educational-use only images. But like many things it is probably best that it is not up to me.
My argument was in relation to pre-existing policies -- and fairly electric-fence ones at that -- which require content re-usability to include commercial and non-educational usage. If we are going to take those policies seriously, and the ideals that stand behind them seriously, I think questioning whether our invocations "fair use" is within the spirit of that ideal is somewhat overdue.
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