--- Anthere anthere6@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Julie Kemp juleskemp@yahoo.com wrote:
Jens said:
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?
I reply --
This is actually interesting -- when DW (or
Elliot)
put this up many months ago, I asked for a reference. I claimed
then
that this map was likely not in fair use. My reasoning was as follows: When I was finishing my thesis in 2000, I was desperate for maps. I found this map, along with a couple others that this person
put
up, at the UW library. I didn't have time to write for permission, and checked the copyright with the librarians, who said I could
only
use it under fair use if I altered the image dramatically, because
it
was still under copyright. Unfortunately, I can't tell you the source -- I had a couple maps copied, traced the parts I needed (the coastlines and rivers) by hand, scanned them, and labeled them as necessary.
Anyway, I think we shouldn't use any images unless we can
definitively
say where they're from -- from what the librarian at my present college says, one still has to credit image sources for fair use, or it isn't fair use.
Julie
Agreed. Wikipedia should have its own mapping system. Where I could put ecoregions too :-)
Which could be discussed at http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediatlas
Is anyone at Wikipedia a cartographer?
In responce to the first post (which I accidentally deleted), is a cleaned up picture (obviously with most of the pixels different, but similar colors) still a violation of copywright? I made one if it would help. --LittleDan
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