[Foundation-l] Board meeting in Rotterdam later this week

[teun spaans]

Certainly. Book and album covers do reflect the culture and in that way
enhance the article, but i do not find them indispensable. The articles
generally remain perfectly understandable without them.
If there was a free alternative, I wouldnt object to adding them. If someone
would donate a huge sum to buy all Sony album covers in the public domain,
and Sony would be willing to sell those rights, I'd be perfectly happy with
them. But alas I dont see anyone donating such a gift, and if someone did, I
doubt the major music publishers and book publishers would be willing to
sell them.

If an image, free or fair use, didnt add to an article, we wouldnt have a
discussion, we would probably already have it removed.

So the question is: what do we pursue: the dream of a free content, or a
compromise which add some chrome/culture but inhibits the free spreading of
knowledge?

teun

On 1/18/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 17/01/07, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I took a look at the xenu article and dont see any reason for including
> the
> > bbc screen shot. Likewise, the artcile remains perfectly understandable
> > without the book covers and handwriting. Hence, there is no need to
> include
> > these fair use images, and make the article undistributable in large
> parts
> > of the world.
>
> Looking at those pictures, and speaking more generally, the book
> covers and handwriting images, despite being Fair Use, do add to the
> article. Such images reflect the culture surrounding subject of the
> article.
>
> --
> Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)
>
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>