On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Austin Hair <adhair(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:26 PM, George William
Herbert
<george.herbert(a)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