On 1/28/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Quotations are the most fundamental application of fair use. If we are unable to use direct quotations, and must paraphrase the ideas the risks of inacurracy are too high.
Text quotations are legaly fairly safe under most legal systems.
You have to admit that there are some people around here who have extreme views about this. :-)
There are people around who want to go for the de option. At the present time their numbers are too small to be considered a movement.
In reviewing the copyrights for such a picture it's important to remember exactly when the Armenian genocide took place.
1915 to 1917 however since the events took place in europe there is the posibilty for pics to still be under copyright.
We can safely assume that the picture was actually taken in 1938, but do we know who took it? There's a strong probability that the picture is already in the public domain, and if research establishes that we don't need fair use.
Talk to danny. Photos involveing that subject area are something he is rather good at.
Allowing fair use depends on the material fitting the legal definitions, or at least having a legal rationale of some sort.
There are a couple of extra requirments on en (material must have been previously published for example.