Do animated images still qualify for fair use? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AllYourBaseAnimated.gif is interesting, though this may qualify as it's a video game. What about TV shows?
On 29/07/06, Joe Anderson computerjoe.mailinglist@googlemail.com wrote:
Do animated images still qualify for fair use? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AllYourBaseAnimated.gif is interesting, though this may qualify as it's a video game. What about TV shows?
-- Joe Anderson
I think this depends upon whether moving images (videos clips) are available under fair use. Does anyone know the specifics?
On 7/29/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
I think this depends upon whether moving images (videos clips) are available under fair use. Does anyone know the specifics?
Of course they are, for the normal purposes of commentary, satire etc. Look at any TV show that regularly takes snippets from other shows to make fun of them (or just comment etc).
Steve
On 7/29/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
I think this depends upon whether moving images (videos clips) are available under fair use. Does anyone know the specifics?
They should only be used where the animation is absolutely required for the purposes of the article. If every frame of the animation (or a high number of them) is necessary for the article, then it probably makes sense to just have the animation rather than have 7 fair use screen shots.
I don't think we have a special category for animated fair use; it is probably best that we don't, since they really should be rare exceptions.
The one place where this is often violated is in little animated GIFs of video game characters. I'm not sure that's a big issue, though.
FF
On 7/29/06, Joe Anderson computerjoe.mailinglist@googlemail.com wrote:
Do animated images still qualify for fair use?
Sometimes