Anthony DiPierro wrote:
You're comparing Apples and Oranges here. Drawing an image of Darth Vader and putting it in an encyclopedia is not the same as making a comic strip or cartoon of Darth Vader.
I quoted the license specifically because it mentioned "names" and "likenesses", in other words redrawing the imagery doesn't get you off the hook here, and if your excuse is that you're just doing it for use in the encyclopedia, then you've come right back to relying on the same old fair use argument.
Don't think you can outsmart these guys so easily, they have a whole industry based on licensing of copyrighted material. In fact, the most intelligent course of action might be to contact them and just *ask* what amount of content they would like to see. If they say zero, then fine, the fair-use haters have their reason to flush it all, but my guess is that they don't want to lose the free visibility, and will give us guidelines. Of course, if they say "use as much as you want, we love Wikipedia", fair-use haters lose one of their key arguments... :-)
Stan