[Foundation-l] Fair Use (again)

The Cunctator cunctator at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 23:19:42 UTC 2007


On 1/31/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/31/07, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Which I should note includes removal of caption text which obviously is
> not
> > covered by any image license. It's certainly true that in most cases the
> > caption is meaningless without the image sometimes the caption text is
> > significant to the article on its own.
> >
> > I believe that removal should be done manually.
>
>
> Really? Cool.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Works_of_the_Philippines_government
>
> Needs sorting out (deleting). Some of the stuff there could probably
> be tagged fair use but the rest needs to be orphaned.
>
> Before you do that would you mind orphaning:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Indusvalleyexcavation.jpg
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sistine.chapel.entire.500pix.jpg
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LowerFortGarry.jpg
>
> Because that would allow us to clean out Category: Non-commercial use
> only images once and for all.


I'm not interested in doing that. I'm not an image licensing zealot.


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