Robert Scott Horning wrote:
Delirium wrote:
Reproducing artwork and other cultural artifacts for scholarly commentary is pretty well established, and is done literally thousands of times per year in academic journals. Heck, a recent journal article I read [http://gamestudies.org/0601/articles/montfort] even reproduced the entire source code of the 1977 Atari game _Combat_ as part of its commentary. It's not as if this is some sort of amazing new use that we're the first to discover.
I've asked before, but are there any publications of the scale of Wikipedia that acutally use fair-use artwork? In nearly every instance I find licensed images instead, including several that have been offered today on the various talk pages of Wikipedia that were referencing Encyclopedia Britannica. I don't see fair use being used to this extent at all in major publications, even textbooks about artwork.
Well, I just linked you to a journal article freely published online; one among many. Do you want a hit counter on it or something to satisfy your "scale" requirement? I don't see what that would have to do with it anyway---How is fair use in a journal any different than fair use in an encyclopedia, legally speaking?
-Mark