On 2/11/07, rfrangi(a)libero.it <rfrangi(a)libero.it> wrote:
You see, when we decided to accept images "used
with permission" and or with the NC clause, it was done for the very same reasons on
en.wiki copyrighted material is used claiming fair use. This is our workaround for not
being able to claim fair use, in fact, you will notice that there are cases in which the
same image appears on en.wiki with the fair use template and on it.wiki with the
"used with permission" or NC template.
That's the reason why, when we are told we should remove those images, but on en.wiki
fair use is just ok, people get pissed and obviously talks about U.S. centrism.
In this thread someone said that renounce to fair use would be an intollerable
limitation to the freedom of speech. The way we use NC and "used with
permission" images is by any respect equivalent to the way you use copyrighted
material claiming fair use.
So in the end having to phase out those images, for us, is an intollerable limitation to
our freedom of speech.
This is not the case at all.. You can continue to accept "with
permissions" images, so long as they would also qualify as Fair Use.
If what you are saying is completely true, that you only use "with
permissions" because there is no fair use in your local law then no
images would need to be deleted at all.
However, this does not appear to be the case on itwiki:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:PuntanoQui/Template:Copyrighted
Where very many of these images could have be recreated as free works
by anyone.. many of them are even the works of wikipedians but they
are not released as free content.