[Foundation-l] precisions about the recent WMF "fair use" decision

[David Monniaux]

So the clarification seems to be:

Replace
"There are some works,
primarily historically important photographs and significant modern
artworks, that we can not realistically expect to be released under a
free content license, but that are hard to discuss in an educational
context without including the media itself."

by
"There are pictures that are very useful to illustrate articles and for
which we cannot
realistically expect to get a free alternative. These include
historically important
photographs and significant modern artworks, as well as pictures of
objects and activities
out of bounds for people able to take free pictures."

Or did I misunderstand?

I really cannot understand a "fair use" allowance that would include
"modern art" but
not activities such as seeing the inside of a space craft, or being
inside a combat unit,
for which access is inherently restricted.

> After seeing all these I really wonder if we
> haven't been misthinking our approach to ESA images.

Please expand. I'm interested in hearing your opinion, since I actually
met ESA and CNES
about the issue and you did not.

(One thing is, for many ESA images, we don't even quite know whether
they're copyrighted
and by whom. But that's a bit complex to explain.)