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David Gerard wrote:
Jimmy Wales (jwales@wikia.com) [050710 01:42]:
Zoney wrote:
a) Fair use? We're using a news broadcaster's photos for our *news coverage* without permission? Hah! Yeah right that's fair use!
You are right that this was wrong. I would say that it was still legally fair use *for us*, i.e. not a legal problem, but my position is that just because it is legal, this is not enough for us to use something. It is a particularly good example of excessive use of fair use because there were and are a great many free images available on the web yesterday.
However, useing another broadcaster's news images is in fact fair use and entirely appropriate in a lot of cases. This is why newscasters cover their stuff in their logo.
So... all the Wikinews images should have a Wikinews/Wikimedia Foundation watermark?
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