[WikiEN-l] Technical solution to bad fair use

Matt Brown morven at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 09:45:29 UTC 2006


On 8/3/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> I showed that in most cases the album cover art is not mentioned in
> the text.

The album cover art is part of the whole package, IMO; it's thus valid
to show it as a visual depiction even if it's not explicitly mentioned
by itself.

> It is quite posible to buy an album without knowing what it
> looks like.

It is indeed, but it's not easier.

Besides, there's a long history (pre Wikipedia, heck pre internet) of
album cover art being usable as fair use when writing about albums.

-Matt



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