[Foundation-l] Clearing up Wikimedia's media licensing policies

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 13:11:29 UTC 2007


2007/2/8, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>
> On 08/02/07, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How does ND exclude and fair use not? What does fair use enable? If done
> > well, the same image in the same way can be used in the same article and
> > also in changes to the article provided they are not major. If there
> were
> > not a fair use image, but an ND one, you could do that AND MORE.
>
>
> Define "derivative" for the purposes of "no derivatives." e.g.
> Resizing is a derivative. "ND" is deeply flawed.
>

That's your interpretation, not mine. And anyway, making a derivative work
from a fair use image is even less possible - I cannot even take it out of
the page, so resizing is fully impossible.

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