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

[Yonatan Horan]

It isn't quite WMF's fault that other countries don't release their pictures
under free licenses (or like the US into the public domain).  You could just
as well say that because enwp uses English sources it is biased towards the
US\UK and therefore is not NPOV. No encyclopedia in the world is NPOV going
by the same standards because they don't really go to North Korea and take
photos there nor do they get a North Korean writer to write some parts of
articles regarding NK. NPOV is the sublime ideal we should all strive for
but in order to further one ideal, you sometimes have to give up another and
in this case when you look at both sides I think it's a no-brainer.

Yonatan

On 2/9/07, David Monniaux <David.Monniaux at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Geni said:
> > >/ To me, these include, among others://
> />/ * military operations and hardware
> /
> > US military photos and trade fairs. Also various open days. About the
> > only think you won't get is NK stuff such as Ch'onma-ho
>
> So, only US hardware and activities. So much for NPOV. (There are tons of
> interesting things
> that you won't see unless you're in operations. Trade fairs will show only
> small arms.)
>
> >/ * spacecraft
> /
> > NASA for a lot of stuff and countries tend to put a lot of their space
> > hardware on display
>
> NASA => only US
>
> You've therefore made the point that our current policies favor the
> broadcasting of the
> activities of the US government. So much for NPOV. :-)
>
>
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