Well, there is such a reason, namely that it would motivate people to make a better free image. And the argument that the new image is not as good as the fair use one wont count then either. So there is a reason
Whether you find that a good reason is a second.
Lodewijk
2007/2/24, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Teun. May I kindly remind you that we are discussing on this list how to deal with all types of issues. Personally I have never ever uploaded "Fair use" material. It is however done on some of our projects. When material is used with a justification of being "Fair use", there is imho no reason to cripple such material. This was suggested in the previous post.
You were wrong in how you reacted to what I wrote about NC and ND the other day, you again assume things that are not in line with what I wrote. It is good to remember that "Fair use" is permitted to a project under a Exemption Doctrine Policy if they so choose. It is therefore relevant to discuss how this is to be implemented if at all. This is what I did.
Thanks, GerardM
On 2/24/07, teun spaans teun.spaans@gmail.com wrote:
Gerard,
may I kindly remind you that our aim is to make and collect free
content?
Fair use is not free.
And your remark about crippling content looks false: i checked a few of the old versions, and these didnt have a photograph. Not even a fair use
one.
regards, teun spaans
On 2/24/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, When you have a good quality picture that you want to use under Fair
use,
you use it as a good quality picture. Why cripple our content when
there
is no need ? If anything we should not have "Fair use" material. Thanks, GerardM
On 2/24/07, Mohamed Magdy mohamed.m.k@gmail.com wrote:
<snip> Well, good work!..but as others said, this isn't the proper way to
get
rid of fair use images..the availability of a fair use image won't
stop
someone from adding a free alternative, fair use images shouldn't be added in a high resolution..right? so when someone sees the image
with
low quality and s/he has another free one, s/he will replace it with
the
free image, provided that you place a message on free use images
saying
'this image isn't free, if you can help.replace it...'...on the
other
end, I think with the increasing popularity, people will just add
their
images(to say: hey, i took that image you see on [[Cat]]
article!)...
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