Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales schrieb:
I am sympathetic to this, but I think that there needs to be a fairly tight policy. As an example, we really can't take a photo from Reuters and claim fair use -- our use is too similar to theirs, competes with theirs, etc.
I think it's worth discussing at length so we can get our heads clear about what the exact bounds should be. Commons-only is very safe for now, but your point is valid of course.
Opening the door for non-free pictures again will block any attempt to encourage people to create free pictures. Showing the company building with the logo or even better: artistic work is much better than creating a situation in which a local law might help for a small fraction of wikimedia users. If the alternative to non-free pictures were "no-pictures", I would agree. But this is simply not the case.
David should come up with an argumentation that survives contact with reality when it leaves the fair-use island (except the argumentation lazyness (sp?) to find free solutions).
Sorry, if this was to harsh but I'm very scared of this change of policy.
Mathias