historically important photographs and significant modern artworks, that we can not realistically expect to be released under a free content license
I tend to disagree with the latter part. We might be able to secure a grant some day for buying sets of modern art images into the public domain. Allowing fair use will make us stop looking for ways to get these images.
On 2/8/07, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
Mark Wagner wrote:
On 2/8/07, Claudio Mastroianni gattonero@gmail.com wrote:
Il giorno 08/feb/07, alle ore 10:05, Mark Wagner ha scritto:
Nothing will change for en.wiki? Hardly. If I'm reading this correctly, most of the images used under a claim of "fair use" are no longer allowed
No, uncorrect. Foundation said that fair use images *should* not be used. The term is important, compared to "need to phased out" used with images with permission. You - en.wiki - as far as I've understood, have the right to choose if allow or not fair use images on your projects. Guess what are you going to choose? :D
Read it again. Fair use is pemitted for "some works, primarily historically important photographs and significant modern artworks, that we can not realistically expect to be released under a free content license, but that are hard to discuss in an educational context without including the media itself." Maybe one fair-use image in twenty on the English Wikipedia meets these criteria.
There are also a fairly substantial number of photos that I've found which are licensed "for use on Wikipedia only". These are currently cataloged and listed under fair-use images, but are not allowed for a 3rd party to use. I just found a couple of these yesterday, and it sort of surprised me that they were even there, as the copyright owner has given the WMF permission to host them on Wikipedia but they are otherwise unfree for anybody else to use them.
With this new policy, I guess these sort of images would have to be deleted on en.wikipedia.
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