Rick wrote:
We have a lot of images with "no commercial use" caveats. Does that mean these images have to be removed?
My position is that yes, eventually, these do need to be removed. There can be exceptions, though...
If an image meets our fair use/fair dealing guidelines, which basically means that it is easily fair use for us, and likely fair use for most contemplated reusers, then we can keep it (because it is free in the relevant sense) *even if* we are *also* able to obtain a license of some sort. It can be wise for us to have licenses for content that we could use without a license, just to make things more clear.
An example of a "fair use" that would likely be fine for just about any contemplated reusers would be a quotation from a book that an article is discussing. Another example would be a screen shot from a movie in an article about that movie.
If the _only_ way we can use a particular image is through a non-free license, and we believe that a fair use defense would be unavailable to us, or to most contemplated reusers, then it should be avoided.
--Jimbo