Hello,
I understood that a few seconds of music are "fair use", we do not distribute the entire song but only a sample suitable to give a first impression.
I somewhat understood why a picture of Donald Duck is "fair use". We are not in the same business as Disney, we are writing an encyclopedia and not comic books.
But I can't understand why this http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3A843-870_Europe.jpg is fair use. The map has been created for an encyclopedia or an history textbook. If this is fair use, is there any picture we may not use?
JeLuF
On Mon, 26 May 2003 07:03:33 +0200, Jens Frank JeLuF@gmx.de gave utterance to the following:
Hello,
I understood that a few seconds of music are "fair use", we do not distribute the entire song but only a sample suitable to give a first impression.
I somewhat understood why a picture of Donald Duck is "fair use". We are not in the same business as Disney, we are writing an encyclopedia and not comic books.
But I can't understand why this http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3A843-870_Europe.jpg is fair use. The map has been created for an encyclopedia or an history textbook. If this is fair use, is there any picture we may not use?
Is it possible that the map also comes from the 1911 Britannica like the basis of the article does? In that case, "out of copyright" would be a better annotation than "fair use", otherwise I would have to agree with you. In any case, an especially created, cleaned up map using the information from this map and a png format would probably come to only 40kb or so.
Jens Frank wrote:
But I can't understand why this http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3A843-870_Europe.jpg is fair use. The map has been created for an encyclopedia or an history textbook. If this is fair use, is there any picture we may not use?
The image is annotated as "Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas (1911)". If true, then it is *not* "fair use" but "public domain", which is a *lot better* for our purposes.
--Jimbo