[WikiEN-l] First fair use criterium

[Stan Shebs]

Timwi wrote:
> I've just had an idea.
>
> One of the "problems" cited for "replaceable" fair-use images is that 
> they give the (false) impression that an image is no longer needed for 
> the relevant article, right?
>
> Well, maybe it would make sense to mark nonfree images in the article 
> somehow. A red border, perhaps.
>   
I've had the same thought, but there are lots of unreplaceable nonfree 
images. I'm sure the art types would be freaked out if paintings by 
recent artists all had red borders around them - especially for some 
modern works where it might not be clear whether the red border was part 
of the painting or not. :-)

It would however, be spiffy if an image tagged as replaceable had all 
its article uses marked visibly. Right now people are doing it manually.

Perhaps one could generalize, so that, say, uses of an image in articles 
other than the ones listed in "fairusein" would also be flagged visibly. 
One truly sneaky way to "mark" would be to display a blank image and/or 
give it a zero size, heh-heh-heh.

Stan