There is an ongoing debate in the Hungarian Wikipedia community about
image license policies. I didn't find anything about the Foundation's
position on the issue (except for the rather vague [[m:Foundation
issues]]), so I'll try to ask here:
1) Which copyright law should be followed? The Hungarian law, the law of
the United States or both? (And what about France and the Netherlands,
where IIRC some of the Wikimedia servers are hosted?) This is an
important question, as Hungarian copyright law is a lot more restrictive
(there is no fair use, and works made by the government remain
copyyrighted).
2) What are the rules, if any, for non-free images? Should we follow
[[Wikipedia:Fair_use#Policy]], or is every community free to create its
own policies about non-copyleft media content?
3) Is it acceptable to use, in a way similar to fair use, images which
are illegal in the strict sense, but safe to use? (Eg. under the
Hungarian law, logos or book covers probably cannot be used without
proper permission, which is often impossible to obtain - the copyright
holder cannot be contacted, or doesn't understand a problem, or just
doesn't care. On the other hand, it's obvious that no one will sue
Wikipedia for advertising him or his product, especially when that
advertising would be legal in most countries.)
Tgr