On 7/12/07, WikipediaEditor Durin <wikidurin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/12/07, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
As co-author of the Foundation's licensing
policy, it was my intention
to ensure that WMF projects have the freedom and flexibility to draft
a fair use policy or similar "exemption doctrine policy" in line with
established practices and beliefs of a given community. For example, I
have no problem with fair use pictures being used to identify
contemporary works where a free content image is not available. But I
think the decision needs to be made by the community as a whole.
If no consensus can be found, rather than asking the WMF Board to make
a final decision, how about organizing a community poll on the
different options?
I guarantee you that no consensus will evolve. There has been
massive contention on virtually every aspect of fair use issues
on en.wikipedia. In no way can the enormity of the debates
be overstated.
I expect it to be worse than that. If we go with straight-up voting,
the resulting EDP will read as follows:
1) Any non-free image may be used if it's related to the article it's used in.
--
Mark
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