On 9/23/05, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
I'm really not in favor of putting "fair use" at all as an option on the auto-license selector -- if you're new enough to not be able to navigate WP:ICT and make sense of it, you shouldn't be uploading copyrighted material yet, period. In my opinion.
I'm strongly opposed to having any "license" options that state, imply, or suggest that the image is being used on Wikipedia *as a whole* as "fair use". The license listed for images which can only be used on Wikipedia as fair use should be called "nonfree" (or something equivalent) or even "unlicensed" and should state that the image is not licensed for use on Wikipedia. A separate tag should then be added to indicate that the image's use *on a specific article* is fair use.
Too many people have the blanket attitude that, e.g., "bookcovers are fair use" or that "DVD covers are fair use", and that's just not right. Having "fair use" as a license option encourages this wrongful and problematic thinking.
Kelly