David Gerard wrote:

On 17/01/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:

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Andrew Gray wrote:

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In theory, we require that material used under fair-use has full source and copyright details. It would seems sensible to interpret this to cover including a reference to any non-free license or conditions, of whatever form, if there is one.

Requiring this is important to the extent to whatever extent we may allow fair use. With this in hand a potential downstream user has the tools for determining whether his own use would qualify as fair use.

Any fair use image without these needs to be marked for immediate attention and then deletion if not remedied. "Fair use" is fair use in a given context (hence the {{fairusein}} template).

I'm a great fan of fair use images on en:wp when used properly - quoting images is as important to being able to discuss things at all as quoting text is - but as far as I can tell, really quite a lot of the allegedly "fair use" images on en:wp should be taken out and shot.

Certainly, whenever I speak of fair use I mean real fair use, and not fair use as a fufillment of someone's wishful thinking..

Ec