[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Time to Seek Professional Lawyers Advice?

[Anthony]

On 9/4/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> IOW, if you're Russian, this may be of interest in terms of what you
> can do inside Russia.  For the rest of us, IMO, standard
> Berne-convention copyright law applies.  This applies to any other
> version of the argument; Poland, Iran, or wherever.  In the Iran case,
> people argue since Iran is not a Berne signatory, we can treat any
> Iranian works as PD.  I don't think this is a sound policy morally
> even if a lawyer could win with the argument.
>

You think it's immoral to use an image, that someone else created,
without permission, to teach someone about a subject, using the
internet?

That seems like a way over the top stance.  Of course my viewpoint is
exactly the opposite.  I think it's perfectly moral for Wikipedia to
use *any* image which helps educate the readers.  Well, maybe not
images which violate people's privacy, but except for that, I don't
see the harm.

Anthony