John Lee wrote:
[[Triumph of the Will]] has a gallery of fair use pictures. The gallery itself violates fair use under American law, which requires that the subject of the images be critically discussed by the article using those images. As if that were not enough, the images are *high-resolution*. It has been suggested that the images are public domain, but this has not been conclusively proven, and the images are currently marked with a copyright of 2005 by the uploader, who also wrote much of the article. It would be bad enough if this is any ordinary article, but...
- It's a featured article, which means it's the best we have to offer
- It's on the frickin' main page right now
Then again, I suppose this does reflect the condition of how fair use and copyright law are blatantly ignored/misunderstood by most Wikipedians...for further information, see [[Wikipedia:Fair use review]], which has a fuller description of what's going on.
Why are we talking about fair use when the film is clearly in the public domain? It was released in 1935!!! 1935 + 70 = 2005.
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