[Foundation-l] Is there a good reason to delete the Burj Al Arab?

[Hans A. Rosbach]

On 13 March 2011 22:14, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 March 2011 18:25, Hans A. Rosbach <hans.a.rosbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The English Wikipedia has a fair use policy, I know of no other
> Wikipedia
> > that has one. The statement "We can claim fair use when using images like
> > that on
> > Wikipedia" is correct for English Wikipedia, but not for the other
> > Wikipedias.
>
> When I said "can" I was talking from a legal perspective. The law is
> the same regardless of what language the content is in.
>
> Ok, I took it to be according to our policy. I'm not a lawyer, so in that
respect I just have to take your word for it.

Like the Danish, we in Norwegian (bokmål) have no fair use. It has been
several years and my memory of the discussion might be wrong, but when we
adopted our image policy I believe arguments against fair use included that
we could not legally use it. Whether we can and whether it should in that
case be policy are different questions, only the latter do I have views on.

Hans A Rosbach