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

[The Cunctator]

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 00:26, cprompt wrote:
>  >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)?

You really should try not to. Others think we can get away with it; but
it's certainly not in the spirit of Wikipedia.

But there is tons of discussion on this issue already on Wikipedia...can
someone pull up the links?