On 20 Jan 2006, at 21:40, Stan Shebs wrote:
Deleting fair use would take away nearly all book covers, album covers, film/tv/game/software screenshots, logos, many symbols, modern-day stamps and currency, photos of unusual or rare products, works by 20th-century artists, etc. Even if energetic Wikipedians were to get busy and stalk all the celebrities to get candid snaps, you're still going to end up with an image-less Star Wars article.
So what. We can link to sources of external images (such as official Star Wars sites).
Making a free encyclopaedia involves certain compromises, such as er not having non free content.
And even I who wouldnt recognise a "celebrity" if they walked past managed to take a bad picture of one.
The fact that illustration is a bit biased in coverage is not a real problem.
What does a book cover add to an article on War and Peace?
Most uses are just decoration, and they are stopping free images being used to replace them. You can be quite lateral with illustration.
Justinc