[WikiEN-l] Caricatures , fair use photographs and illustratice comics

Rory Stolzenberg rory096 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 21:27:30 UTC 2006


On 12/1/06, the wub <thewub.wiki at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Much as I hate meaningless fuss over copyright, aren't these comics
> incorrectly licensed? The text is directly taken from Wikipedia articles -
> presumably under the GFDL. But the images are licensed as CC-BY-SA, with
> no
> reference to either the GFDL or fair use.
>
> That aside, they are quite brilliant.
>
> the wub
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I don't think he's actually copying and pasting the text into the images.
He's using the ideas, yes, but those can't be copyrighted.



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