[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

[Pedro Sanchez]

On Jan 12, 2008 1:41 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:

> On Friday 11 January 2008 04:35, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> > On Jan 10, 2008 7:37 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > There is an awful lot of material we use and justify by saying "well,
> > > we couldn't use anything else" - we should be very wary of believing
> > > this to be a justification that we *need* it.
> >
> > I agree with this sentiment entirely. Just because an image is
> > irreplacable does not mean it has intrinsic value. For instance, the
> > cover image of a book or CD or DVD is hardly "important". That is,
> > unless there is something special and unique about that particular
> > cover that makes it worthy of pointing out especially.
>
> I find cover image of a book a part of essential information about this
> book
> that I want to see if I want to know about the book. At least for me, as a
> reader, it is important. The same for CD/DVD covers, movie posters and
> whatnot.
>
>
"I find it useful " is not likely to fly in a court