I submitted (in round-about fashion) the following to the Juriwiki-l list: ----

I'm going to give this the brief treatment:

1. Wikinews uses Commons to store all uploads of images, etc. This is a good implementation, one I do not think should be changed. 2. Commons does not allow any forms of fair use, including publicity photographs of public figures, corporate logos, or screen caps which do not show software ({{free screenshot}}).

Wikinews needs to have the ability to include some forms of fair use graphics, for example a lead article http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=South_African_former_apartheid_part... which includes an image of Marthinus van Schalkwyk from the South African Government - an image which will soon be deleted on commons because it is licensed as non-commercial. And http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MSN_Encarta_introduces_wiki-like_enhancements which scooped other tech news sources and has been picked up and linked to by them, and used to have images showing the security breach we reported first.

Wikinews has developed a proposed Fair Use policy at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Policies_and_guidelines/Fair_use which is fairly blunt, and a further guideline for images at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Policies_and_guidelines/Image_use_polic... which we hope could cover fair use images on Wikinews itself.

Is there a legal justification for not allowing fair use images? Is there any way to allow fair use images for Wikinews?

Amgine

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