On Friday 20 February 2004 09:51 am, Gareth Owen wrote:
Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com writes:
Nicolas Weeger wrote:
What about for instance book covers? They are definitely not something you can usually have under a free licence. But fair use probably applies (since the cover isn't the book itself).
What would the "fair use" status of a book cover be in Great Britian?
For book and CD covers, its extremely unlikely to be considered Fair Dealing http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa/fair/intro.html
"Posting on a network: Posting of part or all of an electronic publication on a network or WWW site open to the public is not fair dealing and the permission of the rightsholder should be sought in all cases."
This strikes me as strange. Under what protection do we (or anyone else) post short excerpts of copyrighted works? See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League
Best, Sascha Noyes