[WikiEN-l] Re: A Friendly Challenge to Sheldon Rampton

[cprompt]

 >I'm not an attorney, but U.S. copyright law, as spelled out in 17 USC 
107, says that "fair use of a 
 > copyrighted work...for purposes such as criticism, comment, news 
reporting, teaching..., scholarship, or
 > research, is not an infringement of copyright." It goes on to specify 
the following criteria to be used in
 > judging whether the use made of a work constitutes fair use:

You seem familiar with copyright law. I have considered making Wikipedia 
a little prettier by finding suitable pictures for some articles. If I 
find a photograph of, say, a koala, and I want to add it to [[Koala]], 
is that permissable (if I can attribute the photo)?