[Foundation-l] Banning Fair Use (was Re: Foundation Licensing Policy)

[Ray Saintonge]

Stephen Bain wrote:

>This is essentially what the resolution is doing. The types that the
>resolution mentions are:
>
>* media used to illustrate historically significant events [1]
>* identifying protected works such as logos
>* media used to complement (within narrow limits) articles about
>copyrighted contemporary works
>
>So this clearly covers things like corporate logos in articles on the
>corporation, pictures of a painting in an article about the painting,
>and unique photos of historical events (where, of course, there are no
>free alternatives that would adequately convey the same information).
>
>So you can see that the resolution really makes explicit allowance for
>all of the important uses of unfree media in defining what an EDP can
>cover.
>
You can never really make allowance for all the uses.  You need to allow 
for those that have not yet properly discussed, and which may arise in 
the futre..

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