daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
There is a lot of talk about getting free alternatives to restricted Fair Use images, and how this is actually a priority of the Wikimedia Foundation.
That said, I want to point out one specific area where the Foundation is failing. The United States consists of 50 states, each of which has a state seal, but to date, only twenty of the state seal images are free, i.e., 60 percent are fair use images, when a free alternative should be easily available. In fact, what possible justification is there for using a fair use image?
Am I missing something here? Redrawing a copyrighted image does not make it free, and works of states are copyrighted by default. How are we supposed to get a free image? It's like getting a free image of Mickey Mouse.