If someone complains about removal of their fair-use image, please reference this message from the Foundation's lawyer:
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-February/006001.html
If someone doesn't accept what the WMF's lawyer has to say on the subject, I think it becomes their problem rather than yours.
On 2/9/06, Patrick, Brad <bpatrick at fowlerwhite.com> wrote:
To editors on en.wp in particular, don't hesitate to take action on copyvio. It is better to err on the side of caution and aggressively delete. The license problem is as much an educational problem as an actual systemic copyvio problem. Quote should include...[insert]..."in accordance with existing copyvio policy." See en:wp:Copyvio.
- d.
Like this is news?
There has been a lot of tripe lately in defense of blatant copyright infringement and how we're supposed to respect an editor's good faith belief in all kinds of fictions like fairies, pixies and the all-pervasiveness of the fair use provision.
I hope we can declare that excuse to be dead. We really should be acting to defend this encyclopedia.
On 09/02/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Like this is news?
It's not news, but it's rather nice to be able to point and say "Look, our *lawyer* says we should be doing this!"
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Andrew Gray wrote:
On 09/02/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Like this is news?
It's not news, but it's rather nice to be able to point and say "Look, our *lawyer* says we should be doing this!"
If you look at the whole thread, it's not really a legal opinion; all he's saying is that the issue of copyright should be taken seriously, which is a long ways from saying whether we're allowed to have even short quotes of copyrighted text in articles.
(We don't even have a way to identify copyrighted quotes that might need to be scrubbed out.)
Stan
Short quotes are probably not, on the whole, a major issue, as they don't seem to be in most other forms of media. (I could see problems in individual cases, but barring that, I think our policy on them is probably adequate on the whole.) Media is another story, though; outside of the internet (in which image copyvio is rampant), most use of media is much more constrained on this issue, and we should feel similarly constrained, I think.
FF
On 2/9/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
On 09/02/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Like this is news?
It's not news, but it's rather nice to be able to point and say "Look, our *lawyer* says we should be doing this!"
If you look at the whole thread, it's not really a legal opinion; all he's saying is that the issue of copyright should be taken seriously, which is a long ways from saying whether we're allowed to have even short quotes of copyrighted text in articles.
(We don't even have a way to identify copyrighted quotes that might need to be scrubbed out.)
Stan
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