On 10/21/05, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
On 21 Oct 2005, at 12:24, Matt Brown wrote: The argument used is the converse - as we dont have a free picture we can tag anything fair use. Which is of course completely bogus.
Personally, if I cannot obtain a free picture, I do not consider "anything" usable as Fair Use, although I know that puts me in the minority! I do consider promotional pictures freely distributed to be usable under that doctrine, though, when used to illustrate the thing or person the promotional picture shows. Plus, in practice, we can consider promotional images to be used with permission - the Fair Use claim is only required by Wikipedia's policies.
-Matt