On Jan 12, 2008 3:36 AM, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
On Saturday 12 January 2008 09:03, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
"I find it useful " is not likely to fly in a court
So what?
Wikinews had this fight. I unilaterally amended the copyright message at the foot of every page and had no dispute. It now reads: "All text created after September 25, 2005 is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License unless otherwise specified. Copyright terms on images may vary, please check individual image pages prior to duplication."
There is a warning that we use fair use, and for a news source this is *very* important. I've had fights with people from Commons who are 'more zealous' about application of Fair Use, and realistically nobody has answered my fundamental question which is the time issue.
If we write an article on Hilary Clinton and can only get a fair use image in the 12-36 hours the story is current, is it appropriate to replace that image in 10 years with a current image? Remember, this would be on an article dated January 12, 2008 with the potential replacement being in 2018.
I have very little to say on how this impacts other projects such as the English Wikipedia. I've uploaded album covers there myself, I think they belong there.
Brian McNeil
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If you can't find a free image, why not go no image? I'd imagine the Foundation's resolution applies just the same to Wikinews, and it's pretty clear on replaceable nonfree images (i.e., don't use them). An image of a living person who probably has thousands of federal government images taken of her (all in the public domain) is about the very definition of "replaceable".