On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:26 PM, George William Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Conflating and comingling our educational role with open content
advocacy was always risky and is proving impossible. Without devaluing open content, we need to separately support fair use for educational purposes, and stop letting cross-project advocacy games screw with our educational mission.
This is the most intelligent thing I've seen said on this list in a while.
I agree. The fair-use situation on the English Wikipedia is so absurd that I've had to use only an external link for a close-up shot of Madeleine McCann's distinctive right eye, which must be one of the most-reproduced photographs ever. I also had to go through very, very long discussions to persuade people that it was okay to post Scotland Yard e-fits of men they wanted to trace in connection with the disappearance.
And, as always, Holocaust images are still routinely challenged.
Sarah