[WikiEN-l] The principle of fair use

[Richard Grevers]

On Mon, 26 May 2003 07:03:33 +0200, Jens Frank <JeLuF at gmx.de> gave 
utterance to the following:

> Hello,
>
> I understood that a few seconds of music are "fair use",
> we do not distribute the entire song but only a sample
> suitable to give a first impression.
>
> I somewhat understood why a picture of Donald Duck is
> "fair use". We are not in the same business as Disney,
> we are writing an encyclopedia and not comic books.
>
> But I can't understand why this
> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3A843-870_Europe.jpg
> is fair use. The map has been created for an encyclopedia
> or an history textbook. If this is fair use, is there any
> picture we may not use?
>
Is it possible that the map also comes from the 1911 Britannica like the 
basis of the article does? In that case, "out of copyright" would be a 
better annotation than "fair use", otherwise I would have to agree with 
you.
In any case, an especially created, cleaned up map using the  information 
from this map and a png format would probably come to only 40kb or so.
-- 
Richard Grevers
I hate Victor Hugo said Les miserably