geni wrote:
On 1/17/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I'm fine with book and album covers in an article substantially dealing with the book or album or its cover specifically - that's clearly fair use. It's when e.g. it's a general illustration on an artist article that it's pushing it.
Why? If you want to view images as quotes then their use only makes sense when the article talks about the images.
That's not true at all---quotes can be used to illustrate a more general topic as well, or as supporting evidence for a hypothesis, or many other things other than specifically talking about the work being quoted. For example, [[en:anarchism]] quotes sentences or paragraphs from several political-science authors who have written books about anarchism, which is perfectly fine despite the page not being specifically about those books.
-Mark