[WikiEN-l] Our Featured Article of the Day Contains Probable Copyright Violations

[Ray Saintonge]

John Lee wrote:

>[[Triumph of the Will]] has a gallery of fair use pictures. The gallery 
>itself violates fair use under American law, which requires that the 
>subject of the images be critically discussed by the article using those 
>images. As if that were not enough, the images are *high-resolution*. It 
>has been suggested that the images are public domain, but this has not 
>been conclusively proven, and the images are currently marked with a 
>copyright of 2005 by the uploader, who also wrote much of the article. 
>It would be bad enough if this is any ordinary article, but...
>
>   1. It's a featured article, which means it's the best we have to offer
>   2. It's on the frickin' main page right now
>
>Then again, I suppose this does reflect the condition of how fair use 
>and copyright law are blatantly ignored/misunderstood by most 
>Wikipedians...for further information, see [[Wikipedia:Fair use 
>review]], which has a fuller description of what's going on.
>
Why are we talking about fair use when the film is clearly in the public 
domain?  It was released in 1935!!!  1935 + 70 = 2005.

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